Economics

There’s One Heresy That Sets Bernie Apart From All Other Dem Contenders to Unseat Trump

There’s One Heresy That Sets Bernie Apart From All Other Dem Contenders to Unseat Trump There’s One Heresy That Sets Bernie Apart From All Other Dem Contenders to Unseat Trump

And it’s not simply that he calls himself a socialist.

Jul 16, 2019 / Feature / Greg Grandin

Saudi Ship Dockworkers Protest

How Dockworkers Are Fighting the Arms Trade How Dockworkers Are Fighting the Arms Trade

Across Europe, a series of coordinated actions at shipping ports have challenged Saudi violence against the Yemeni people.

Jul 16, 2019 / Katy Fox-Hodess

Rana Plaza protest

6 Years After the Rana Plaza Collapse, Are Garment Workers Any Safer? 6 Years After the Rana Plaza Collapse, Are Garment Workers Any Safer?

Despite major advancements in accountability, workers across the Global South are still struggling to gain real power in the workplace.

Jul 15, 2019 / Michelle Chen

The Class Politics of the Civil War

The Class Politics of the Civil War The Class Politics of the Civil War

By naming a common enemy—the privileged class of slaveholders—the Republican Party and Union Army were able to build and then steer a coalition of Americans toward the systematic d...

Jul 15, 2019 / Books & the Arts / James Oakes

There Are Too Few Companies and Their Profits Are Too High

There Are Too Few Companies and Their Profits Are Too High There Are Too Few Companies and Their Profits Are Too High

As industries get more concentrated, businesses have to do less to earn more.

Jul 12, 2019 / Mike Konczal

Migrants crossing through Agadez

What Happened When the EU Moved Its Fight to Stop Migration to Niger What Happened When the EU Moved Its Fight to Stop Migration to Niger

Overnight, an EU-backed law criminalized the main source of income in the city of Agadez. It didn’t stop migration, but it wrecked the economy.

Jul 5, 2019 / Rémi Carayol

VIDEO: A General Strike Is Possible, but We Have to Work for It

VIDEO: A General Strike Is Possible, but We Have to Work for It VIDEO: A General Strike Is Possible, but We Have to Work for It

Jane McAlevey, The Nation’s strikes correspondent, explains how strikes will be vital in confronting runaway income inequality and the climate crisis.

Jul 3, 2019 / The Nation

Sanders

Sorry ‘Washington Post’—Bernie Sanders Is Right About Economic Inequality Sorry ‘Washington Post’—Bernie Sanders Is Right About Economic Inequality

The senator should not be taking heat for using “numbers that add up” to make a point about economic injustice.

Jul 2, 2019 / John Nichols

Honduras

Hondurans Are Still Fighting the US-Supported Dictatorship Hondurans Are Still Fighting the US-Supported Dictatorship

Ten years after the coup, they have become the largest single Central American nationality in the refugee caravans fleeing north.

Jul 1, 2019 / James North

Stuyvesant High School/Bill de Blasio

Bill de Blasio: Missing in Action Bill de Blasio: Missing in Action

Was New York’s mayor too busy campaigning for president to do something about the city’s segregated elite public schools?

Jun 27, 2019 / StudentNation / Pedro Noguera

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