Financial capital, in a cash-dominated society, always wins over human capital.

Political dysfunction. Partisanship at record levels. Attack politics run amok. And public approval of Congress scraping the single digits (Sen. John McCain is fond of saying it's down to blood rlatives and paid staff).

Tens and millions of dollars flow each year from foreign sources to American labor unions, but actions taken by President Obama's administration make that money harder to trace.

While the U.S. economy becomes increasingly interconnected with the fate of the global market, trade policy still struggles to captivate the American public’s attention. Popular support for free trade is waning, and the presidential candidates are polarized in their approach to trade policy. What are the candidates’ positions on trade?...

While there is widespread agreement that the substantive results of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Hong Kong Ministerial meeting were meager, there is no agreement on where the Doha Round negotiations go from here. Optimists still hold that breakthroughs are possible over the next few months and that the round...

Afterfifty of years of unity, the house of labor is divided again.

Forming a new federation will finally give the labor movement the competition that it desperately needs.

President Barack Obama doesn't resemble Lincoln, Roosevelt, or even Carter. Rather, Obama is reminiscent of Chauncey Gardiner from the movie "Being There".