International

Tips for fighting inequality from a top Oxfam campaigner.

New Zealand, by most yardsticks, used to rival equal nations like Denmark. But New Zealand’s incomes have become much more unequal — and its problems much more pressing. Steeply progressive taxes could reverse that dynamic.

In the June UK elections, all the major parties pledged themselves to stand up for ‘ordinary people.’ Will they all now confront extraordinary wealth?

With a call for an income cap on society’s richest, a longshot presidential campaign has thrown a giant scare into the French political elite.

New research points to globalization as a key driver of labor's declining share of national income, particularly in developing countries.

In response to enormous public pressure, lawmakers have rejected appeals by global corporations and voted to protect the country's people and water supply by banning metallic mining.

Shifting power from countries to corporations in trade negotiations hurts both people and the planet. Will the president’s trade agenda put workers’ rights ahead of profit and plunder?

A tribunal has ruled against a global company in a case over mining rights. Now we need to block trade deals that allow these investor-state lawsuits. 

The right wing that conspired openly against an elected president’s mandate insists on a wild capitalism and does not accept that black, poor, and indigenous people, women, homosexuals, and slum...