Our new Economic Democracy agenda is about building economic power and liberation for Black and brown people in the United States. In college, I chose to major in economics after taking my first ...
The Economic Democracy Project at Demos envisions liberation for Black and brown people. This requires us to address inequities in economic, political, and institutional power. The concept of economic ...
The future of many of Donald Trump’s tariffs is up in the air, with the Supreme Court expected to hand down a ruling on the administration’s global trade barriers any day now. But the question of ...
Can syndicalism and the vision of economic democracy rally popular movements again? In this article, Rasmus Hästbacka of the SAC makes a historical retrospective in order to find ways forward. Is ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Morgan Simon covers the intersection of finance and social justice. Jan 07, 2025, 01:45pm EST Supporting local, community-oriented ...
“We can either have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few. But we can’t have both,” Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once warned. His concerns ...
What’s the best way to pass on what you learned from more than a half century of left-wing doing, reading, writing, talking and thinking? Write a book. This was especially obvious to a retired ...
In 2020, leaders from across the business sector defended the electoral process against unprecedented threats, condemning the violence on Capitol Hill, and calling for a peaceful transfer of power.
Democracy has long been viewed as humanity’s crowning political achievement. It is hailed as a system that enshrines human rights, ensures peaceful transfers of power, and gives voice to the masses.
The fight to reclaim American democracy has to begin with our oligarchic political economy. This piece is excerpted from the author’s The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American ...
The United States has one of the oldest constitutions still in effect, but it can seem hard to find true believers. Republicans claim its principles, but let Trump choose its meaning, abrogating ...