It is not unreasonable to fear that Trump will govern as he campaigned—as an authoritarian, a threat
to the rule of law, an agent of disorder on the world stage.
High-end residential towers in New York, Singapore, London, and elsewhere are just a particularly egregious example of the warping of the modern investment economy.
If the hollowness of the 1990s opened up a space for one kind of communitarian moment, perhaps the bewilderment of today is the occasion for another, different kind.
When the summons for jury duty came, I was more than a little excited to see how the system actually worked in real life. The experience did not disappoint.
For many who work, their employment is precarious to the point of affecting their housing opportunities, marriage and family decisions, and general peace of mind.
The most important moral crisis of the twenty-first century may be a leading priority for Pope Francis, but it barely registers on the U.S. political radar.
In 'Success and Luck,' Robert H. Frank explains the human mind is just not designed to think rationally about luck and about how the successful got that way.
New U.S. Census Report data on income, poverty, and health-care coverage comes as good news. But amid the recovery, millions of Americans still feel economic pain.
Despite what Donald Trump says, the country is neither a "hellhole," nor are we "going down fast." We're getting better but still have more work to do.
In their respective books, Jason Moore and Jedediah Purdy both reckon with ecological disaster under capitalism. But John Ruskin knew something they don't.
The best advice for readers moved by Andrew Bacevich’s Brexit analysis is to rethink what democratic commitments require of educated and economically secure people.
The British referendum revealed the weakness of the political establishment. The phenomenon points to the opening of a new chapter in Europe's post-war history.
Brexit may end up being not a setback but an opportunity. And a decade or two from now, we may well find it difficult to recall what all the fuss was about.
When it comes to the world’s most deadly diseases, our profit-based pharmaceutical system is a failure. That's why Rachel Kiddell-Monroe wants fundamental change.
In his new book 'Inequality,' Anthony B. Atkinson argues that we can’t reduce inequality by fiscal policy alone. We must also change how incomes are generated.
The American labor movement has been pushed back on nearly every front. Its revival is the key to reducing economic inequality and fostering shared prosperity.
Many Americans (and American businessmen) think that the United States has the highest tax rates in the world. But that it isn’t even close to being true.
Robert J. Shiller and George A. Akerlof examine influences on the marketplace beyond supply and demand, and wonder: Why didn't economists see the 2008 crash coming?
Pope calls for change in economic theory and practice to deal with refugees in Europe while Rome's Augustinian Institute unveils "Master in Joseph Ratzinger" degree.
Matthew Desmond's book, through data he compiled on evictions across the U.S., explains the grubby mechanics of exploitation at the bottom end of the housing market.
Donald Trump’s Republican primary triumph means that this cannot be a normal election. Americans must come together across party lines to defeat him decisively.
Donald Trump has played on the fragility of our media system, which can’t get enough of him, and on a pervasive pain among those cast aside by our economy.
In two new books, Hazareesingh and Bell incorporate American views into the 20th century struggles between republicans and Catholics in France over "basic freedoms"
How and why Bernie Sanders was invited to the Vatican; Cardinal Burke's backlash and the pope's "bodies"; the important difference between "the Synod" and "synods."
The "culture industry" testifies to the expansionist ambitions of the late capitalist system, which can now colonize fantasy and enjoyment as it once did countries.
Slots, video poker, and other gambling machines are often described as games, but they're a sinful rejection of the goodness of the world and a failure to rejoice.
It has long been a truism among economists that free trade is the ideal. But maybe it's time to consider the harsher lessons of the past fifteen years.
