In a political earthquake last year, the populist and racist Reform Party took 4.1 million votes, coming third, against a backdrop of collapsing living standards and accelerating impoverishment.
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World's Biggest Banks Hit By $5.7 Billion Fine for Market Rigging
Five giant banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup, were fined roughly $5.7 billion, and four of them pleaded guilty to U.S. criminal charges over manipulation of foreign exchange rates.
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Solutions Movement: How Worker-Owned Co-ops Can Change the Way We Work
New York City is home to the country’s largest worker-owned co-op, Co-operative Home Care Associates, which employs some 2,300 workers, mainly immigrant and minority women in the South Bronx.
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Broad Coalition of Nurses, Students, Labor, Environmentalists Support Robin Hood Tax
There is widespread support for Sen. Bernie Sanders's proposals, introduced Tuesday in Congress, to use a Robin Hood tax on stock transactions to fund tuition at four-year public colleges and universities.
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As San Francisco Wages Rise, Questions Emerge About Enforcement
Getting the minimum wage raised was the easy part. The bigger challenge is ensuring the legislation has teeth.
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Eyes on the Spies: Art In the Age of Hyper Surveillance
A new exhibition opening Thursday in San Francisco depicts the depth and breadth of spying, listening, recording and gathering data.
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Texas Governor Prohibits Cities and Towns from Banning Fracking
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill into law that prohibits cities and towns from banning an oil drilling practice known as hydraulic fracking, giving the state sole authority over oil and gas regulation.
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Protesters for Third Day Block Access to Shell Oil Rig at Seattle Port
Hundreds of protesters assembled early Monday to prevent workers from reaching the rig that the company plans to bring to Alaska's Chukchi Sea this summer.
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Elizabeth Warren Issues Scathing Report On America's – and Obama's – Broken Trade Promises
Warren's report detailed decades of failed trade enforcement by American presidents, including the current one.
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German Resistance And Europe's Growing Rebellion Against U.S. Transatlantic Trade Deal
The tide of public resistance against a proposed free trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union is rising in Germany, as opponents say the plan would harm democracy and rule of law.
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20,000 Macedonians Take to the Streets Demanding Government's Resignation
The Balkan country has been thrown into political crisis with the government implicated in a massive wire-tapping scandal and rigged elections, the opposition leader accused of plotting a coup, and 18 shot dead last week in a bloody gun battle.
