Economy

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

Democratic Candidates Are Ignoring One of the Year’s Biggest Labor Disputes

Democratic Candidates Are Ignoring One of the Year’s Biggest Labor Disputes Democratic Candidates Are Ignoring One of the Year’s Biggest Labor Disputes

Their hunger for Hollywood money is leading them to duck the important fight between the Writers Guild of America and the Association of Talent Agents.

Jul 3, 2019 / Keli Goff

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

Jamaica Is Using Bob Marley’s Legacy to Market Austerity

Jamaica Is Using Bob Marley’s Legacy to Market Austerity Jamaica Is Using Bob Marley’s Legacy to Market Austerity

The reggae icon would be embarrassed by his country’s attempts to rebrand a disastrous ideology.

Jul 2, 2019 / Keston Perry

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

Oregon

Behind Oregon’s GOP Walkout Is a Sordid Story of Corporate Cash Behind Oregon’s GOP Walkout Is a Sordid Story of Corporate Cash

Industry and belligerence won out over climate legislation. 

Jun 28, 2019 / Zoë Carpenter

Wayfair Walkout

Wayfair Workers Walk Out Wayfair Workers Walk Out

Their action showed how workers can wield their collective power to fight injustice outside of the workplace itself. 

Jun 28, 2019 / Natalie Shure

Bella Hadid and Lil Miquela

Branding Fake Justice for Generation Z Branding Fake Justice for Generation Z

Meet Brud, the secretive tech start-up here to outfit corporations with fashionable social causes—through elaborate CGI fiction.

Jun 28, 2019 / Emmeline Clein

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