• | President Richard Nixon signs the National Environmental Policy Act NEPA on January 1 1970 Credit US Department of Agriculture public domain President Donald Trump signs Executive Order 13780 on March 6 2017 barring travel indefinitely from seven countries Credit White House public domain | MR Online

    From Nixonomics to Trumponomics

    The 50-Year Evolution of the GOP.

  • | NASA astronaut and Boeings crew flight test pilot Suni Williams in the International Space Stations Tranquility module July 10 2024 Credit NASA Office of Communications | MR Online

    As Boeing cracks, is it capitalism or Kafka?

    Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are not trapped in space, according to Boeing. The two expected to return to Earth from an eight-day mission on June 18.

  • | Buybacks | MR Online

    Stop stock buybacks!

    On December 7, 2022, Southwest Airlines announced that it would reinstate its quarterly dividend payments, which had been legislatively suspended under requirements in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act).

  • | Wikimedia Commons FileGrape workersjpg Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Essential—and expendable—Mexican labor

    Lear Corporation—one of the world’s largest auto parts manufacturers—rose to position 148 on Fortune magazine’s famous list of the 500 largest firms in 2018. It operates with roughly 148,000 workers spread across 261 locations.

  • | The economic basis of the recent protests around the world | MR Online

    Social crises, crises of Democracy, neoliberalism in crisis

    The current global social tensions have in common the rejection of inequality and the loss of democratic control. The engine driving these challenges may well be the fading relevance of neoliberalism, which is aggravating its own crisis and opening the door to confrontation.

  • | Close up of a dictionary word Unemployment | MR Online

    Traditional measures of unemployment are missing the mark

    We’ve heard it countless times in recent media accounts: The economy is at “full employment.” The most recent jobs numbers, out the first week in May, show the official unemployment rate, and applications for unemployment benefits are at a 50-year low. The last time a recovery was able to push the unemployment rate to these […]