Mainstream economics argues that the tax system is the best tool for reducing economic inequality. In fact, “predistributive” ...

Populist economic policies grounded in the value of work and commonsense notions of fairness may be able to win over ...

Three migrant farmworkers died from heatstroke in Spain this summer. Largely ignored by media, their fate illustrates how the ...

Alex MacArthur is a researcher and freelance writer currently pursuing a master’s in economic and social history at the ...

France has just seen the third resignation of a prime minister in less than a year. What is at stake is not merely short-term ...

Women say Pfizer has failed to properly warn them about a link between birth control shot Depo-Provera and brain tumors. The ...

When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the ...

In solidarity with the recently imprisoned former president Jair Bolsonaro, Donald Trump levied tariffs of 50 percent on Brazil. He is quickly learning that the US’s influence is weaker than he ...

Canada Post once set the standard for secure, middle-class work. Now, as government moves to gut it, postal workers are ...

The Czech elections handed victory to the Trump-like billionaire Andrej Babiš last weekend. The neoliberal right-wing ...

Joseph Kellner teaches Russian and Soviet history at the University of Georgia. His new book, The Spirit of Socialism, is the ...