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Margaret Thatcher

In every way, her agenda opposed the interests of ordinary working people. How did she get so many of them to vote against their own economic interests again and again?

GM

If the majority of American workers were producing more without earning more, who was going to buy all the stuff?

Union City

With a well-marked pathway from preschool through high school, the dense New Jersey city is a model educator for newcomers—and America at large.

Walmart

The charges form the crux of a federal discrimination lawsuit that goes to trial this month.

Hurricane Sandy

For every San Francisco earthquake and Superstorm Sandy, some die—and others profit.

Bank of Cyprus

This tiny nation has been pushed off a cliff to "save" the eurozone. Reunification may be the only way to turn the island's fortunes around.

Pills

How Republicans and industry profiteers are targeting high school students, welfare applicants and the unemployed.

Comcast Center

In her book Captive Audience, Susan Crawford shows how media giants exert a stranglehold over consumers and government.
 

Afghanistan

In Western hands, Afghanistan didn't transition to a "free market" system—but a particularly venal form of crony capitalism.

David Stockman

 Reagan's former budget director's outrage over crony capitalism and bank bailouts is right on, but the pundits don't like it.

Blogs

Can the Kenyan Marxist save America from demolecuralization? 

March 12, 2013

While unions have taken a battering in recent years, the US once exported labor rights to the world.

March 10, 2013

Progressives are making real headway on mandatory paid sick leave at the local level—but the conservative pushback is on. 

March 8, 2013

President Obama wined and dined Republicans to talk policy bargains. Who’s getting served?

March 8, 2013

Two new documentaries take a hard look at the struggles of low-income and middle class families to access the basics—like food, housing, healthcare and education.

March 8, 2013

Working parents will benefit enormously from an affordable, quality place to send their kids.

March 6, 2013

A man who did a lot of good for a lot of people.

March 6, 2013

Do we really want the president to make a deal on the sequester that will be harder to undo later?

March 6, 2013

The Republican governor seeks to give an “emergency manager,” not elected officials, authority over the city.

March 6, 2013

Alleging unpaid wages and repeated retaliation, workers are coming out about immigrant injustice. 

March 6, 2013
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