Mike Bird is Wall Street editor at the Economist and cohost of the Money Talk podcast. His most recent book is The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset.

If the labor movement is going to defeat Donald Trump and other anti-worker politicians, Painters union president Jimmy Williams Jr writes, it will need a wellspring of organized workers.

A government-granted monopoly has allowed a pharmacy benefit manager owned by Cigna to overbill the Defense Department for years, in what amounts to an enormous cash transfer from American taxpayers ...

Long before Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet planners and economists engaged in wide-ranging debates about economic reform. But they never seriously considered the option of a genuinely participatory, ...

Jacobin sat down with the Economist’s Mike Bird to talk about his new book The Land Trap, on why land retains its centrality in our economy even into the digital age — and how land ownership cements ...

Historic preservation groups responded to the White House East Wing's demolition with equivocal statements and "deep concern.

The Nordic countries have far less economic inequality than th. Most of the difference is due to the Nordics’ welfare states.

Chance Phillips is an economics PhD student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a master’s in political science. He also freelances as a reporter and essayist.

The danger from artificial intelligence isn’t a Terminator-style robot uprising but tech capitalists using the technology to ...

Already just a few months into its founding, Britain’s new left party has been dominated by factionalism and infighting. These are problems that have always plagued left populist movements. Your Party ...

Across the US, people are increasingly defaulting on their car loans — a dire economic indicator because these loans are usually the last payment Americans are willing to miss. Meanwhile, auto ...

Yesterday, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met in South Korea to strike a deal to end the trade war between their two nations.