How the World Works

questions. There’s a feeling in the country that people are under attack. I think they’re misidentifying the source of the attac ...

necessarily going to put a stop to it. I look around and see a lot of Third World countries where, if the citizens had weapons, ...

unemployment, but also wage reduction. Real wages have been declining since the late 1960s. Since 1987, they’ve even been declin ...

constructive options, like union organizing, leads to violence. Labor [Harvard professor] Elaine Bernard and [union official] To ...

solidarity with American workers who, back in the 1880s, were suffering unusually harsh conditions in their effort to achieve an ...

dozen or so representatives in the New York region who were voting against NAFTA. It showed their contribu - tions from labor an ...

The activities that it carries out are quite commonly efforts to undermine democracy, as in Chile through the 1960s into the ear ...

Bob McChesney, in his recent book Telecommunications, Mass Media and Democracy, details the debate between 1928 and 1935 for con ...

accepted, even by liberals, as the democratic solution. By the mid- to late 1930s, the game was essentially over. This struggle ...

As I mentioned earlier, they don’t want decision-makers and participants; they want a passive, obedient population of consumers ...

tend to be more opposed to the death penalty than the general population. I’m sure you’ll find plenty of private wealth and corp ...

mass media of this kind up until the 1960s, and it helped sustain and enliven a working-class culture. It had a big effect on Br ...

how high school teams are now so antagonistic and passionately committed to winning at all costs that they had to abandon the st ...

At the same time, athletes are lionized or—in the case of Tonya Harding, say—demonized. If you can personalize events of the wor ...

time. I remember reading something maybe ten or fifteen years ago by a political scientist who writes about these things, Walter ...

with the nature of US society as exemplified in comments like do your own thing, go it alone, don’t tread on me, the pioneer spi ...

THE WORLD Toward greater inequality In his column in the New York Times, Anthony Lewis wrote, “Since World War II, the world has ...

the technology and the peons in Latin America will produce export crops and do some simple operations that they can manage. But ...

is now moving around the world, about $1 trillion or so of which moves every day. This huge amount of mostly speculative capital ...

the electronic equivalent of capital—from one place to another. There’s also been a very substantial growth in the international ...