Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
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Washington’s Revolving Door Is Hazardous to Our Health
We’ve seen how Washington insiders write the rules of politics and the economy to protect powerful special interests. But as we enter the holiday season we’re getting a refresher course in just how that inside game is played.
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Post-Election, Beware the Revolving Door
There is legalized bribery, and then there's the way that dark money really works.
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We Are the United States of Big Oil
The world's five biggest oil companies made over $60 billion in the first half of this year, and hundreds of millions of that goes right back into undermining clean energy investment.
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How Lawmakers and Lobbyists Keep a Lock on the Private Prison Business
Of all the public services to be outsourced, incarceration -- where the state deprives a person of liberty and assumes responsibility for his or her mental and physical well-being -- should not be auctioned for campaign contributions.