Capitalism

Barbara Garson, author most recently of “Down the Up Escalator,” talks about the unsustainable inequality we are spiraling into as capitalists forget they need redistribution to save their own …

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is swimming in large donations from the top 1 percent.

Laura Flanders: Not long ago it was the Great Recession, today it's Obamacare that's serving as a convenient scapegoat for employers seeking to tighten the screws on their workers.

Is SAC Capital Advisors' mega-billionaire boss Steven A. Cohen a financial genius or a crook? You be the judge.

Corporate personhood and the civil and criminal protections it affords exacerbate inequality and destroy principles.

In this excerpt from his forthcoming book, “Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power,” Max Haiven postulates the need to reclaim and reimagine the commons, to restore humanity and human …

CA, GA, OK introduce bills promoting accountability and transparency in deals to outsource public services to for-profit corporations.

Today, CVS Caremark, the second-largest drugstore chain in the country, announced that it will stop selling all tobacco products by October 1.

Economics professor Heiner Flassbeck says the “market” is good for making high profits from international exchange rates; the only rational solution for a healthy economy is take exchange rates …

Calvinism's embrace of wealth as a sign of divine election lives on in the red state/blue state religious and social welfare divides.