The idea of a Donald Trump presidency has me musing about what we were supposed to learn in school. We were taught that capitalism

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The idea of a Donald Trump presidency has me musing about what we were supposed to learn in school. We were taught that capitalism
Jeremy Corbyn, elected by a landslide to lead Britain’s Labour Party, has for his entire 32 years in politics held fast to the socialist
A new CNN / ORC poll just revealed that the majority of Americans want Congress to reject the nuclear deal with Iran that the
In the 19th Century, the Victorian historian Thomas Carlyle coined the phrase “dismal science” for the field of economics. With the help of new
My Obamaphile friends may object, but it’s time to consider an uncomfortable fact about Obama: His indifference to the plight of labor unions in Wisconsin led to the
Robert Lafollette, Jr. and Joseph McCarthy. Russ Feingold and Scott Walker. How could one state–Wisconsin–elect politicians with such divergent views? No state east of
It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the
The financial meltdown of 2008 prompted many of us to look back to the decades after WWII for guidance—when Glass-Steagall kept banks in check,
This is the best summary of the not-so-hidden agenda of the corporate class to weaken the tiny bit of power the working class still
Biographer and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has written biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Lyndon Baines Johnson. As she looked to a