Finance

Notre Dame Cathedral

Billionaires Can Rebuild the Past, but Their Wealth Can’t Fix the Future Billionaires Can Rebuild the Past, but Their Wealth Can’t Fix the Future

To save the environment and curb climate change, we need to transform the economy that allows for billionaires to exist in the first place.

Apr 30, 2019 / Emilie Prattico

Shutdown Worker

The ‘Best Economy’ Ever Isn’t Working for Working People The ‘Best Economy’ Ever Isn’t Working for Working People

Trumpism has failed Americans even at the height of the recovery.

Apr 2, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Donte Ingram

Ending the NCAA’s Tax Exemption Should Be a Slam Dunk Ending the NCAA’s Tax Exemption Should Be a Slam Dunk

The NCAA is a billion-dollar a year media company, and it should pay its taxes.

Mar 27, 2019 / Ronald Katz

World Bank IFC

How the World Bank Can Stop Funding Disaster How the World Bank Can Stop Funding Disaster

Now that the Supreme Court has ruled the World Bank can be sued, what’s next for the organization?

Mar 21, 2019 / Komala Ramachandra and Erika Lennon

Medicare for All protest

Medicare for All Is Not Just Good Politics—It’s Good for Business, Too Medicare for All Is Not Just Good Politics—It’s Good for Business, Too

Having health insurance tethered to employment is a terrible idea.

Mar 19, 2019 / Joe Sanberg

Democrats Must Expose Trump’s Betrayal of Working People

Democrats Must Expose Trump’s Betrayal of Working People Democrats Must Expose Trump’s Betrayal of Working People

Forget the scandals and the tweets. What really matters is the looting.

Mar 15, 2019 / Robert L. Borosage

Yanis Varoufakis

A European Spring Is Possible A European Spring Is Possible

The DiEM25 proposes immediate financial changes to end austerity and fund a green—and hopefully post-capitalist—future.

Mar 13, 2019 / Between Us, We Cover the World / Yanis Varoufakis

Immigrant Advocates Just Got JPMorgan Chase to Stop Financing Private Prisons

Immigrant Advocates Just Got JPMorgan Chase to Stop Financing Private Prisons Immigrant Advocates Just Got JPMorgan Chase to Stop Financing Private Prisons

Next up? All the other major banks financing private detention centers.

Mar 8, 2019 / Javier H. Valdés and Ana María Archila

Puerto Rican Students

Yale Benefits From the Puerto Rican Debt—These Students Are Fighting to End That Yale Benefits From the Puerto Rican Debt—These Students Are Fighting to End That

They demand that the university cancel its holdings in the Puerto Rican debt and divest from the fossil-fuel industry.

Mar 1, 2019 / StudentNation / Adriana Colón-Adorno and Alejandro Comas-Short

Amazon's Jeff Bezos

The Rich Are Still Getting Richer The Rich Are Still Getting Richer

Inequality is the economic great wall between those with power and those without it.

Feb 26, 2019 / Nomi Prins

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