In 2021, the United States was confronted with a challenge that it hadn’t seen in decades: inflation. Working-class Americans ...

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

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

During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump declared that he could “shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” Last week, a block away on Sixth Avenue, an assassin killed ...

This article appears in the February 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. In the past few decades, American capitalism has become more concentrated, more corrupt, and more ...

State capitalism. MAGA Marxism. Crony capitalism. "When the American government appears to favor a company over rival companies, that distorts the marketplace," says Ann Lipton, a veteran business law ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he's headed to Davos this week to "draw a clear line between democratic capitalism and ...

“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 ...

The drive to put prices on everything is a basic feature of capitalism. Political theorist Alyssa Battistoni asks then why capitalism has failed at putting a price on so much of nature, which she ...

Capitalism gets a lot of hate. I expect it from the left. They blame free markets for racism, "horrifying inequality" and even, according to Economist Joseph Stiglitz, "accelerating climate change." ...

WHEN COMMUNISM fell, that was supposed to be that. History would continue, but arguments about how to organise society seemed to have been settled. Yet even as capitalism has strengthened its hold on ...

NMAHMAI copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Contents Foreword / by Marion Nestle -- Introduction : Do foodies need to understand capitalism? -- How our capitalist food system came to be -- ...