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

Only Mugabe and his friends benefit from Zimbabwe’s diamond wealth.

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?...

Introduction

For a bankrupt country in the middle of hyperinflation, the discovery of a major diamond deposit in Zimbabwe in June 2006 should have been good news. Instead it has provided sustenance to a volatile and violent political elite that suppresses the majority. The power sharing/coalition government in Zimbabwe came into...

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.