The relationship between capitalism and democracy in America isn’t always easy—and it has been that way since 1776. After the American Revolution, no one was more responsible for setting capitalism’s ...

Capitalism relies on private ownership and profits, with minimal government intervention. Supply and demand dictate pricing and distribution in capitalist systems. Critics argue capitalism can lead to ...

Americans’ approval of capitalism has plunged to a record low, while their support for socialism has ticked up slightly in recent years, a new Gallup poll shows. Only 54% of US adults surveyed said ...

There is no simple opposition to be drawn between the liberal market order of the early 1800s and the supposedly more violent neoliberal state of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Coercive ...

Young people now blame capitalism for poverty, racism, high prices, even climate change. They listen to people like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.), who says, "Capitalism…is the absolute ...

For years, Republicans have disparaged their political rivals by describing them as socialists. But that may not be the insult it once was for rank-and-file Democrats, who have warmed to socialism and ...

A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about the essential and contradictory nature of capitalism to the environment and her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. The voluminous ...

The hardest things to see are often right in front of you. This is the case with respect to the radical redirection of corporate governance under way in the United States borne of the reality that ...

According to John Cassidy’s century-spanning history Capitalism and Its Critics, the system lives on because of its antagonists. A Social Democratic leaflet against capitalism, 1905. In 2008, on the ...

Americans are increasingly souring on big business and capitalism — but they're not turning to socialism quite yet. New polling from Gallup found that just 37% of Americans have a positive rating of ...

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