Economy

Arm in arm with the private prison industry, they’ve loosened federal restraints on private detention facilities

Neoliberalism

“Free” Markets and the Attack on Democracy

John Buell

The neoliberal deification of markets has many parents.

Plutocracy

Our New Gilded Age and the Scandal of Constant Money Scandals

Rajan Menon

Then there are the dark money groups, which can receive financial contributions from any source, American or foreign.

Climate Change

We Don’t have a Global Emissions Problem, we Have a Rich Peoples’ CO2 Problem

The Conversation

American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently shook up environmental politics by releasing a broad outline of a Green New Deal

Democratic Socialism

Bring Back Eisenhower Socialism

OtherWords

Conservative demagogues aim to scare you into embracing their pro-plutocrat agenda as the only tolerable choice

Plutocracy

Jared Kushner is Poster Boy for Elite Universities’ Pay to Play Scandal

AFP

Kushner gained admission to Harvard University in 1998 after his father made a legal $2.5 million donation to the school

Climate Crisis

Could the Climate Crisis Spark a Global Financial Meltdown Worse than 2008?

The Conversation

We must broaden our conversations to include the increasing integration of insurance and finance

Inequality

The Survival of the Richest: The Real Wall

Nomi Prins

Money keeps flowing upward through banks and speculation, while the economic lives of those not at the top have largely remained stagnant

Climate Crisis

Capitalism vs. Socialism Is a False Choice: We need true democracy to Avoid self-extinction.

David Korten

( Yes! Magazine) – Economic power is—and always has been—the foundation of political power. Those who control the peoples’ means of living rule. In a democracy, however, each person must have a voice in the control and management of the means of their living. That requires more than a vote expressing a preference for which […]