Labor

Dr. Heiner Flassbeck: Government has to step in and correct the imbalances of low wages and unregulated financial markets or a deeper recession and crisis is inevitable.

Judge-made rules create incentives for employers to reach an impasse when bargaining with workers.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson discusses the pressures of Christian fundamentalism in the US military.

Nomination of Tom Wheeler shows Obama wants an FCC that manages monopoly competition - not a defender of public interest.

The fact that force feedings are being discussed in the context of Guantanamo is dangerously misleading; it obscures the routine use of feeding tubes in American prisons.

Harrowing tales of women forced to trade sex to keep employment in factories.

An artist's use of the iconic Smokey the Bear for anti-fracking propaganda might land her jail time.

Ann Hodges and Ellen Dannin show how courts eroded employee power with a legal quagmire where strikes are risky.

Community time banks and local currencies can be an effective means to escape the corrupt extractive finance system.

In the midst of a deepening jobs crisis, Republicans are proposing legislation that kills the only law that creates employment.