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.

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.

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

Chance Phillips is an economics PhD student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a master’s in political science. He also freelances as a reporter and essayist.

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

Already just a few months into its founding, Britain’s new left party has been dominated by factionalism and infighting. These are problems that have always plagued left populist movements. Your Party ...

Across the US, people are increasingly defaulting on their car loans — a dire economic indicator because these loans are usually the last payment Americans are willing to miss. Meanwhile, auto ...

Thanks to its tenant unions, Los Angeles County could be on the verge of enacting an eviction moratorium to hit back against ...

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