More and more, governments have seen a need to compel changes in corporate behavior to achieve their foreign policy aims—in effect, to dabble in state capitalism. That shift has been in the works for ...
During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump declared that he could “shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” Last week, a block away on Sixth Avenue, an assassin killed ...
Polling shows clear majorities of both Republicans and Democrats want free markets and entrepreneurship over government coordination.
Capitalism has proven itself to be an extraordinary engine for creating wealth and improving standards of living, as well as promoting the rule of law, representative government, and more free and ...
There seems to be no advanced industrial democracy in the world more politically divided, or politically dysfunctional, than the United States. Recently I have been asking myself, “how did we get to ...
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Capitalism’s toxic nature

Q&A / A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about the essential and contradictory nature of capitalism to the environment and her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. Daniel ...
If a conservative idealist got to write the federal tax code, the result would be low and flat rates that fund a modest government and do not punish success. Meanwhile, the liberal idealist would ...
“Neither blindness nor ignorance corrupts people and governments. They soon realize where the path they have taken is leading them…Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.” – ...
These days, it can feel like Americans across the political divide cannot agree on much of anything. But there is encouraging news: When it comes to the economic foundations of human progress and flou ...
Based on papers submitted to a symposium held at the 5th World Archaeological Congress in Washington, D.C. in 2003. pt. 1. Introduction: From ethics to politics / Yannis Hamilakis -- pt. 2. Ethics in ...
In the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s election victory earlier this month, it became clear that socialism is more of a rising threat on the left than ever before. It’s also clear the GOP could no ...
According to John Cassidy’s century-spanning history Capitalism and Its Critics, the system lives on because of its antagonists. A Social Democratic leaflet against capitalism, 1905. In 2008, on the ...