capitalism

Hope in the middle of an economic meltdown starts with telling the powers-that-be exactly what they don’t want to hear: the party’s over.

Former evangelicals now strive to shed possessions.

That’s what the American Family Association thinks, anyway.

A leading worker justice organizer writes a book on how and why employers are stealing from the workforce, to the tune of billions every year.

We’ve always had unscrupulous tycoons, market manipulators and connivers, but we’ve never had as obnoxious a bunch of weasels on Wall Street. These morally deformed punks claim the right to undermine perfectly sensible (and sorely needed) regulation because we haven’t learned to make dishonest gain for ourselves in the ways they have become almost kabbalistically schooled in doing.

A new study of contemporary workplace spirituality deconstructs the dehumanizing movements of the early 20th century and the personal development programs of the 60s though it fails to address any conflict between religion and capitalism.

Recent studies show that children as young as three years old use “brand cues” to choose among food and play options—and thus is a Pandora’s toybox opened.

Is there something about civil religion in the US that gives those responsible a pass?

Consumers face off with big banks in Chicago.

If adding sexual orientation to the hate crimes law saves just one life, it brings redemption (and safety) to us all.