In her new book, Alyssa Battistoni explores how nature came to be treated as a supposedly cost-free supplement of capital ...

It is not capitalism which is responsible for the evils of permanent mass unemployment, but the policies of the stateman ...

For mUCH of modern history, multinational enterprises have acted hand in glove with the state. Britain and the Netherlands were bankrolled by their East India companies, and provided military and ...

1776 was a watershed year, and not only because America’s Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence in July, igniting a political revolution that sent democracy sweeping across the globe ...

It’s been one year since the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles destroyed homes in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena. And while residents are still figuring out whether and how to rebuild, ...

America's budget deficit is approximately $1.8 trillion—about 6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). This is a very high level of indebtedness, especially given that we are running these large ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every year at the Oscars, attendees leave with gift bags so elaborate they have to be reported as income to the IRS. Luxury ...

This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response and recovery. It is published with support from the CO2 Foundation. Every ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... President Donald Trump denied two disaster declaration requests from Colorado that would have allowed the state to receive federal assistance — a move the ...

“Any book about capitalism that begins almost 900 years ago in the port city of Aden, in what is now Yemen, promises a new story,” said Marcus Rediker in The New York Times. Harvard historian Sven ...