Lessons in Viking Economics
George Lakey's new book explains how the Nordic countries have achieved their egalitarian society and high standard of living
International
The Brexit Vote and Inequality
The head of international relations at the British labor federation explains the implications for workers of leaving the European Union. Post-referendum update: Read Owen Tudor's response to the June 23...
Restoring Labor Rights in Bangladesh
Two years after the April 24, 2013, collapse of the Rana Plaza building, Bangladesh has become a laboratory to test whether pressure from worldwide labor unions and NGOs in support...
What Obama Can Learn From Scotland
As the Scots begin tackling their rising incarceration problem, America should learn from them.
JFK and Today’s Free Trade Agreements
As President Obama scrambles to salvage his trade agenda this week, his top emissary to Japan is appealing to Democrats by lifting up one of the party’s most beloved...
China’s Third Plenum Endorses the “Decisive” Role of the Market — Unfortunately for China
The Third Plenary Meeting of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (the ‘Third Plenum’) took place November 9-13 in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing....
European Progress Toward a Financial Transactions Tax
Germany's major political parties have agreed on the need to impose a financial transactions tax (FTT) as part of a broad package of economic reforms to be undertaken by a...
To End Extreme Poverty, Let’s Try Ending Extreme Wealth
The world’s wealthy gathered in the Alps last week to discuss how to ‘solve’ our world’s toughest problems. The biggest? That, suggests one anti-poverty outfit, may be their fortunes.
Class Warfare in Greece
The right wing in America and abroad never tires of trotting out the accusation of "class warfare" anytime anyone tries to raise taxes on the rich -- or even tries...