CEO-Worker Pay Ratios: Cutting-Edge Campaigns on a Critical Inequality Battleground
Be part of this discussion on the widening pay gaps on the global political stage and how we can build on promising initiatives to narrow this economic divide.
Our Osmotic Border
Forget the border–what drives migration?
The Ingredient Haunting our Candy
Milk protein concentrate is in thousands of the things we eat, but there’s no government oversight ensuring that this ingredient is safe for consumers.
Fracking Exports
Selling liquefied natural gas to foreign markets doesn’t serve U.S. interests.
Keystone XL’s Dirty Little Secret
The people and companies pushing the tar-sands pipeline don’t want you to know that most of this oil won’t be made into gasoline for our vehicles.
More than 100 Economists Call for Trans-Pacific Trade Deal to Allow Capital Controls to Prevent Crises
In advance of Trans-Pacific trade talks, over 100 economists are sending a letter today urging negotiators to promote global financial stability by allowing the use of capital controls.
America vs China in Africa
By clinging to a paternalistic attitude and an antiquated Washington Consensus, the United States has opened up space for a broad Chinese role in Africa.
Big Agriculture’s Latin American Exploits
Without any tariffs padding the price of our exports, cheap U.S. grain would flood Colombia.
China Forced to Temper Its Mercenary Approach to International Trade
China has been taking the code of Western corporations — “ye who enter the marketplace, abandon all ethics” — to the next level.
Capital Controls and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The first trade agreement to be negotiated by the Obama administration should allow governments to control volatile capital flows.
Haiti, the Caribbean Sweatshop
The country’s economy leans on underpaid workers and remittances from its startlingly enterprising emigrants.
Enough Free Trade Nonsense
A limitless world of sweatshops isn’t good for anyone.
America Shouldn’t Scrimp on Food Safety
Gambling with the nation’s food safety isn’t a sound way to rein in government spending.
All Roads Lead Back to China
Across Africa, China has become known as the agent of mass construction, wisely bartering infrastructural development – chiefly mining-specific – for long-term access to strategic resources.
A Volatile Agenda on Agriculture
The U.S.-Colombia free trade pact would reinforce a system that leaves farmers and consumers at the mercy of volatile prices and markets.