How the World Works

democracy in terms of popular participation? Over long periods, the involvement of the public in planning or implementation of p ...

in which the state integrates labor and capital under the control of the corporate structure. That’s what a fascist system tradi ...

First of all, Kennedy was very pro-business. He was essentially a business candidate. His assassination had no significant effec ...

What would happen then? He’d get thrown out and someone else would be put in as CEO. These are institutional problems. Why is it ...

once in a while and cast our votes and then go home. This is meaningless, the article says—this isn’t real participation in the ...

He made a distinction between two groups—aristocrats and democrats. Aristocrats “fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw ...

discover and extend and manifest their fundamental human nature and human rights. Democracy is rooted in freedom, solidarity, a ...

death [under current law, corporations have even more rights than individuals, and can live forever]. It didn’t happen through p ...

your tax rate), all sorts of other regressive factors end up making everyone’s tax rate very near a fixed percentage. An interes ...

white people with blue eyes. Since they don’t believe in the free market any more than any other rich people do, they’ll leave t ...

most people. You believe it or you don’t.” It’s interesting. It’s interesting, in part, because of the Japanese man’s failure to ...

National Institute of Standards and Technology. It used to try to work on how long a foot is but it will now be more actively in ...

industrial country in the world, except the US. The Clinton plan is called “managed competition.” What is that, and why are the ...

people, the insurance companies will demand higher rates from it than the one the executive belongs to, which will include mostl ...

Economist. It was concerned about the fact that Poland has degenerated into a system where they have democratic elections, which ...

resources can get together to participate in the public arena. That’s one of the reasons unions are so hated by business and eli ...

below the poverty line. They suffer from malnutrition and other poor conditions that cause very high mortality rates—and, if the ...

increase in attention to violent crime? Is it connected to the fact that there’s been a considerable decline in income for the l ...

ideology is that a person’s human rights depend on what they can get for themselves in the market system, they have no human val ...

indeed with most of the world. The state should have no right to take people’s lives. Radio listener: Does this country have a v ...