If the labor movement is going to defeat Donald Trump and other anti-worker politicians, Painters union president Jimmy Williams Jr writes, it will need a wellspring of organized workers.

A government-granted monopoly has allowed a pharmacy benefit manager owned by Cigna to overbill the Defense Department for years, in what amounts to an enormous cash transfer from American taxpayers ...

Long before Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet planners and economists engaged in wide-ranging debates about economic reform. But they never seriously considered the option of a genuinely participatory, ...

Jacobin sat down with the Economist’s Mike Bird to talk about his new book The Land Trap, on why land retains its centrality in our economy even into the digital age — and how land ownership cements ...

Mike Bird is Wall Street editor at the Economist and cohost of the Money Talk podcast. His most recent book is The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset.

The danger from artificial intelligence isn’t a Terminator-style robot uprising but tech capitalists using the technology to ...

The Trump administration says it will withhold funding for food stamps starting November 1. The move will inflict hardship on ...

Historic preservation groups responded to the White House East Wing's demolition with equivocal statements and "deep concern.

A combination of the breakdown of the Hollywood studio system, the decline of censorship, and the rise of wildly — and ...

The Nordic countries have far less economic inequality than th. Most of the difference is due to the Nordics’ welfare states.

Socialism has a well-earned reputation as a secular, rational movement. But not all socialists throughout history were quite ...

After World War I, city hall Socialists around Italy built an impressive array of welfare programs, schools, and libraries.