Pundits define the Millennial Generation in the U.S. in contradictory ways: narcissistic but community-driven, entitled but civic-minded. Educated and technologically savvy, the children of baby boomers were predicted to bring… Read more »
economy
Greek austerity and the plight of women
On my way to Greece in September 2013, I expected to see boarded-up shops and people sleeping on sidewalks. Greece was the first country to fall victim to vicious austerity… Read more »
Detroit: ground zero for the battle to save public sector benefits and pensions
There is a bad moon rising in Detroit and workers and retirees saw it coming. Republican Governor Rick Snyder appointed “emergency manager” Kevyn Orr to oversee a coup d’état of… Read more »
Boeing and government officials extort major concessions from angry machinists
If anyone wasn’t already convinced that the profit system is rotten to the core, the underhanded wresting of major concessions from the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM)… Read more »
Microcredit: good cause or neoliberal fairy tale?
In 1976, Bangladeshi economist Dr. Muhammad Yunus came up with the notion that poverty could be solved in developing countries with “microloans” — lending small amounts of money to poor… Read more »
Unpacking the JPMorgan Chase scandals: $30 billion in fines and counting — and this monster bank still got off lightly!
Back in 2008, when a lot of financial institutions were on shaky footing, JPMorgan Chase was living the good life. The bank cashed in on its stability, as the government… Read more »
Food prices, drought, and poverty
Across the globe climate change is wreaking havoc on cities and rural areas, and the people and other creatures that inhabit them. Floods, droughts, extreme storms and rising temperatures are… Read more »
Freedom Socialist editorial — $15 an hour now (not eventually)
Seattle has become a beacon of hope for low-wage workers as a movement to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour picks up steam. So it was quite a… Read more »
Freedom Socialist soapbox — Academic sweatshop: my life as an adjunct
When I was 19 years old, a college professor changed my life. I took his Feminist Political Thought course and realized for the first time that I could be smart… Read more »
Seattle’s fight for $15/hour: Leave no one behind
When the small city of SeaTac passed a $15 minimum wage initiative in November 2013, it heightened the hopes of all those fast-food strikers and other labor protesters over the… Read more »
