The war in Ukraine is the latest chapter in the history of capitalism, empire, and war. Capitalism means enterprises run by small groups of people...
For the first time in over a century, the United States has a real, serious, ascending global competitor. The British, German, Russian, and Japanese...
Capitalism is just one particular way of – a system for – organizing the production and distribution of goods and services. It differs from...
Today’s declining US capitalism can no longer repeat its previous bland celebrations of private enterprises and free markets. Too much is going...
The United States’ recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were neither necessary nor successful in military terms. They did enable massive government...
Capitalism’s ‘conservative’ defenders yet again oppose raising the minimum wage. They fought raising it in the past much as they tried to...
To grasp the sheer magnitude of US economic inequality in recent years, consider its two major stock market indices: the Standard and Poor 500 and...
No matter who won, what US politics lacks is real choice. Both major parties function as cheerleaders for capitalism under all circumstances, even...
The looming election has brought forward intensifying debates over a capitalism in crisis, rising nationalism and state power, and the possibility...
Capitalism, as Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows, relentlessly worsens wealth and income inequalities. That inherent...
Capitalism has always had business cycles. The capitalist enterprises that produce goods and services are distinctively organized around the...
