If the labor movement is going to defeat Donald Trump and other anti-worker politicians, Painters union president Jimmy Williams Jr writes, it will need a wellspring of organized workers.

Mike Bird is Wall Street editor at the Economist and cohost of the Money Talk podcast. His most recent book is The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset.

Long before Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet planners and economists engaged in wide-ranging debates about economic reform. But they never seriously considered the option of a genuinely participatory, ...

Jacobin sat down with the Economist’s Mike Bird to talk about his new book The Land Trap, on why land retains its centrality in our economy even into the digital age — and how land ownership cements ...

Historic preservation groups responded to the White House East Wing's demolition with equivocal statements and "deep concern.

The danger from artificial intelligence isn’t a Terminator-style robot uprising but tech capitalists using the technology to ...

Yesterday, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in South Korea to strike a deal to end the trade war between their two nations.

From 2005 to 2016, against the wishes of both the country’s ruling and opposition parties, the small Venezuelan municipality of Torres underwent a radical experiment in democracy, giving residents ...

A combination of the breakdown of the Hollywood studio system, the decline of censorship, and the rise of wildly — and ...

The Trump administration says it will withhold funding for food stamps starting November 1. The move will inflict hardship on ...

The Nordic countries have far less economic inequality than th. Most of the difference is due to the Nordics’ welfare states.

Socialism has a well-earned reputation as a secular, rational movement. But not all socialists throughout history were quite ...