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Trade

Broadly speaking, China continues to make impressive strides when it comes to developing its information and communications technology sector. (Photo: Getty/Stock Photo)

Who's Rising and Falling on Planet Earth?

Biden’s anti-China ambitions.

Dilip Hiro ·

People participate in a "March on Billionaires" event on July 17, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Tax the Rich. Here's How

These 7 ways of taxing the rich would generate more than $6 trillion over 10 years.

Robert Reich ·

Migrant children rest inside a pod at the Customs and Border Patrol detention center in Donna, Texas on March 30, 2021. (Photo: Dario Lopez-Mills/Pool via Getty Images)

As Biden Ramps Up Detention Capacity, Group Warns Contaminated Military Bases 'Are No Place' for Kids

"Immigrant children under the care of the federal government should not be in cages, let alone toxic sites in military bases," an Earthjustice attorney said.

Kenny Stancil ·

South American immigrants arriving illegally from Mexico disembark from an inflatable boat on the U.S. bank of the Rio Grande river at the border city of Roma on March 28, 2021. (Photo by Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images)

'It's Not a Border Crisis,' Says Ocasio-Cortez. 'It's an Imperialism Crisis... a Climate Crisis... a Trade Crisis.'

The New York Democrat also explained how the U.S. carceral system and foreign policy relate to the nation's immigration system.

Jessica Corbett ·

The Ever Given container ship is currently stuck in the Suez Canal. (Photo: Samuel Mohsen/picture alliance via Getty Images)

What the 2021 Suez Canal Blockage Reveals About the History and Politics of Global Shipping

In the longer term, much as it did in the mid-20th century, the recent obstruction of the Suez Canal, combined with the effects of the pandemic, may precipitate a reckoning in how maritime transport operates.

Laleh Khalili ·

Moderna, a U.S. biotech firm, announced on November 16, 2020 that its experimental vaccine against Covid-19 was almost 95% effective. (Photo illustration: Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images)

Making the Covid Vaccine Less Accessible to Poorer Countries Is Dangerous for Everyone

COVID-19 and its variants reduce poor nations to producers of pathogens that will continue to disrupt economic and social life in wealthy nations. 

John Buell ·

Sikh-Americans hold a protest rally to save the farmers against farm laws in India, St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo by: Michael Siluk/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

US Farmers and Food Justice Groups Declare 'Solidarity' With Indian Farmer Protests

"We stand with India's farmers! Now let's connect the dots between the forces of neoliberalism that stifle farmers, from India to the U.S."

Brett Wilkins ·

Rhode Island's Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo speaks at a press conference in Providence, Rhode Island on December 3, 2020.

'A Profoundly Troubling Pick': Progressives Slam Biden Choice of Gov. Raimondo for Commerce Chief

"Raimondo has a history of supporting cuts to public assistance programs, selling public pensions to Wall Street, undermining labor unions, and grossly mishandling Rhode Island's Covid-19 response."

Andrea Germanos ·

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross listens during a meeting of the National Space Council at the East Room of the White House June 18, 2018 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Why Progressives Should Care About Biden's Pick for Commerce Secretary

The nation deserves a leader at the department who will fight for the urgent needs of people, not the desires of corporations.

Zena Wolf ·

Katherine Tai delivers remarks after being introduced as U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to be the next U.S. Trade Representative at the Queen Theater on December 11, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. President-elect Joe Biden is continuing to round out his domestic team with the announcement of his choices for cabinet secretaries of Veterans Affairs and Agriculture, and the heads of his domestic policy council and the U.S. Trade Representative. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Biden's Top Trade Official Should Work to Protect Governments From the Rising Number of Corporate Lawsuits

In 2020, foreign investors filed at least 51 known cases demanding huge sums from governments struggling to fight a historic pandemic.

Manuel Pérez Rocha ·

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