In France, a Bold New Take on ‘Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité’
June 27, 2024 | France's left parties are uniting to challenge both the far right and the corporate center.
Articles by Rubrick Biegon
How Contractor CEOs Get Rich Off Taxpayers
June 21, 2023 | Enormous Pentagon budgets are also inflating CEO pay at major military contractors. Here's how to rein in this taxpayer-funded excess.
Italy’s Far Right Rode Inequality to Victory — But Has No Answers for It
September 30, 2022 | A let-the-rich-be government has opened the doors to the smiling heirs of Italy’s neofascist factions.
America’s Merchants of Death Then — and Now
August 25, 2021 | More tragedies like Afghanistan will be inevitable until we squeeze the personal profit out of prepping for war.
Channeling FDR in the UK
January 18, 2017 | The UK Labor Party has revived an FDR-era aspiration of imposing a maximum wage on the highest earners, among other radical proposals to stem inequality.
Here’s What the Millionaires at Davos Can Do About Global Inequality
January 19, 2016 | Instead of just talking about inequality, the global business elites gathering in Switzerland can do something about it: Stop dodging their taxes.
Is GDP Over?
October 23, 2015 | Economists from rich countries increasingly agree: Sustainable development and reducing inequality matter more than economic growth.
The Foreign Policy of Optimism
December 29, 2009 | The power of positive thinking has often warped American foreign policy, as a new book by Barbara Ehrenreich suggests.
Somali Piracy and the International Response
January 29, 2009 | Besides being unsustainable from a logistical standpoint, the heightened military response to the pirate attacks probably won't work because it doesn't address the root causes of this menace to maritime security.
New Deal’s Unsung Japanese Victory
April 18, 2008 | FDRs campaign against economic royalists lived onand triumphedafter his death. But not where he would have expected.