"From one day to the next, they left us with no job," said an out-of-work electrician, as he marched alongside some 200,000 fellow workers and their supporters in downtown Mexico City this month.
Jonathan Tisch | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York
Where will we end up in a new regulated environment? Jonathan Tisch asks some of those closest to President Obama: Bill Daley, lawyer Marty Lipton and Penny Pritzker.
Jeff Faux | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
In Mexico, it was as if the US government had suddenly sent the National Guard to take over the Tennessee Valley Authority and replace its workers with people from Duke Power on the grounds that the TVA had run a deficit.
Mike Elk | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
Very few of us have made any attempt to really reach out to the teabaggers on the issues that we share with them. We could lock arms with them and form a powerful alliance; but instead we attack each other.
Mary Ann West | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
Fifteen years of failed immigration policy has not lessened the number of undocumented aliens entering the country and has cost millions in dollars.
Anis Shivani | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business
Moore explicitly states that we ought to turn to democracy as the alternative to capitalism. But the opposite of capitalism is not democracy, it is socialism.
David Sirota | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
Clinton told Taylor Branch about an interview with Rolling Stone's William Greider: "I did everything but fart in his face." The revelation about Clinton's interaction with Greider isn't groundbreaking, but it is telling.
Jeff Cohen | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Liberal activists need to be smart enough to see Obama for the status quo politician he is -- and to act accordingly.
Steve Parker | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
The recent release of a Transportation Departments inspector general's office government audit has brought to a head, once again, an issue which ignites deep feelings and loyalties in the best people.
Mike Elk | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
Manufacturing is essential to rebuilding our economy and moving away from the debt-driven boom bust cycles of the past.
Gary Shapiro | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business
Mexico did not take lightly to the U.S. closing our border to their trucks -- that's why they're called "trade wars."
Dave Johnson | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
Face it, if we do not have an active and engaged industrial policy we are handing the business over to those who do. It is time to start discussing a national plan for manufacturing.
Hector E. Sanchez | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
The hostility of globalization forces corporate management to compete for the cheapest possible products at the expense of exploited workers.
Michael Likosky | Posted 08.12.2009 | Business
To protect American workers, in the luxury sector and elsewhere, our government trade negotiators should revisit outsourcing rules.
Ryan Grim | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
The NAFTA debate was difficult enough without having to talk about the sprawling Mexican drug trade and its attendant corruption. And how NAFTA would also end up benefiting the cartels. So President Clinton ordered his people not to talk about it.
Aram Roston | Posted 07.28.2009 | Business
The United States is the world's leading exporter of human plasma - providing about 70 per cent of global supplies, the biggest player in what is now a multibillion dollar business.
Javier Sierra | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green
The Mexican meat industry generates 130 million tons of fecal and urine matter each year, which often ends up in rivers and on coasts causing terrible environmental damage.
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
We're bailing out the economy boat desperately with stimulation, but the financial leadership opposes plugging the hole in the hull from offshoring.
Dr. Gabriela D. Lemus and Hector E. Sanchez | Posted 06.04.2009 | Politics
We cannot allow the swine flu pandemic to cast a shadow on one of the most important civil rights issues of our time -- immigration reform.
Robert Naiman | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics
Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act is easy to justify on the basis of guaranteeing the basic human rights of working Americans.
Norman Solomon | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics
When Obama takes a progressive step, it has been made possible by progressive activism. When Obama takes an anti-progressive step, it has been facilitated by progressives muting their criticism.
Ted Lewis | Posted 05.17.2009 | World
we need an approach that decriminalizes undocumented workers and prioritizes stabilizing Mexican communities as part of a broader program of economic recovery.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.09.2009 | World
The contemporary idea of the "global economy" is based on a misapplied analogy to the historical development of national economies.
nytimes.com | ELISABETH MALKIN | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
EXICO CITY -- Mexico's former president, Carlos Salinas, used to promise that free trade and foreign investment would jump-start this country's develo...
AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 04.18.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY — Mexico is imposing tariffs of 10 to 45 percent on dozens of U.S. exports ranging from fruit and wine to washing machines in retali...
Laura Carlsen | Posted 10.26.2009 | World