If democracy is to endure, it must tame capitalism, not merely coexist with it.

Fans of capitalism like to say it is democratic or that it supports democracy. Some have stretched language so far as to literally equate capitalism with democracy, using the terms interchangeably. No ...

“THE top 10% own three-quarters of global wealth, while the bottom half holds only 2%.” So states the World Inequality Report 2026. Can democracy survive when capitalism concentrates wealth so ...

With the constant barrage of news, it is easy to focus on the president’s newest outrage. Less obvious, permanent damage is being done to our republic’s founding principle of “democratic capitalism.” ...

In 1982, I was appointed welfare commissioner for the State of Connecticut. During a TV news appearance early in my tenure, a reporter asked me whether I had ever been on food stamps. I had not; my ...

This project is personal for Mattei, given her family history, in which challenging capitalism and fascism were not just ...

Capitalism recognizes individual effort, private ownership, and the pursuit of financial independence through hard work, innovation and competition. Unregulated savage capitalism prioritizes profit ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Ask someone what a calling is, and they’ll probably say something like “doing work you love.” But as a management professor who has spent two decades researching the history and ...

Throughout history, humans have always searched for ways to predict the future. AI is just the latest tool to try to predict how humans will behave. While some believe that predictive tools can be ...

I READ with great interest an article by Umair Haque about capitalism and socialism and would like to share part of his views ...

Laura and Bloomberg’s Stephanie Flanders delve into politico-economic issues in the news. Is the West’s experiment with social democracy over? Is survival of the richest our fate? In this episode, ...

Ten years ago, insurgent parties across southern Europe were elected on promises to transform capitalism. Their failure offers lessons the contemporary left cannot afford to ignore. As new left ...