Labor protests around the U.S. have surged during the COVID-19 pandemic as employees across a range of industries have pushed for better pay and working conditions. But a case the Supreme Court agreed to hear last week could make going on strike much more difficult.

The rivalry with China is palpable but history teaches us lessons about how it’s easier to blame others than blame ourselves

Answering this question can be tricky.

The partnership with America had a long and fruitful life — but Europe is ready to start over.

India tops the list of the fastest growing economies in the world for the coming decade and is projected to grow at 7.9 per cent annually, ahead of China and the US, according to a Harvard University report.

Interventionist policies from the west have failed in the Middle East. It’s time for the rest of the world to step up, says Chandran Nair, chief executive and founder of the Global Institute For Tomorrow, a Hong Kong based thinktank

Peter KORZUN: Few people believe the US Treasury’s assurances that the 261 million ounces (roughly 8,100 tonnes) in official gold reserves that are stored in Fort Knox and other places are fully audited and accounted for. What if the vaults turn out to be empty? It’s wiser to bring your gold home while you can, rather than to just keep on wondering.

The world’s debt load has ballooned to a record $164 trillion, a trend that could make it harder for countries to respond to the next recession and pay off debts if financing conditions tighten, the International Monetary Fund said.

Don’t buy the oily declarations from the tech billionaires and others that they want to help you survive financially. What they want is to more fully stuff their own pockets. By Chris Hedges.

Thank God for the corporate media. If it wasn’t for them, and the ADL, I’d have probably never discovered that I’m a Nazi. By CJ Hopkins.

The philosopher Herbert Marcuse saw machines as our greatest hope for real liberty. But in Trump’s America, automation feels more totalitarian than ever. By David Moscrop.

The mini stock market crash earlier this month was a minor symptom of a much larger problem: class war. By Larry Beinhart.

‘America first does not mean America alone,” President Trump declared last month at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This sudden burst of pragmatism from an avowed nationalist showed what a difference a year can make. Denouncing the “false song of globalism” during his presidential campaign, Trump, on his third full day in office, canceled the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a regional trade deal with Japan and 10 other countries.

How every little thing affects every other thing… By Rob Larson.

The world is in convulsion, and so are we. We are taken by a malaise, comprised of a mix of sensations. A dread in face of the sinister landscape brought by the rise of reactive forces everywhere, whose level of violence and brutality reminds us of the worst moments in history. Along with the fear, we are also taken by a perplexity in face of another phenomenon, simultaneous to the first: the takeover of worldwide power by the capitalist system in its new version—financialized and neoliberal—which extends its colonial project to its ultimate limits, its globalitarian realization.

Globalisation has turned citizenship into a commodity. Matthew Valencia went shopping for a new passport and found bargains to be had.

The long read: It’s not just a populist backlash – many economists who once swore by free trade have changed their minds, too. How had they got it so wrong? By Nikil Saval.

DAVOS, Switzerland — Alibaba founder Jack Ma thinks America went wrong over the past 30 years by focusing too much on war and Wall Street. Speaking at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, Ma was asked about globalisation and the reaction to it represented by the election of Donald Trump as US president.

For a summer exhibition titled “99 Cents or Less,” the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit has begun to resemble a dollar shop. By Chris Hampton.

“We know as we’re investing there, we’re also creating a competitor.” By Wolf Richter.