The left is in shambles everywhere while hard-right and far-right parties are riding high in polls across the world. I contend that globalization is at the heart of these developments, and thus it is ...
The neofascist reaction, the force behind Trump, has come about because of the extreme disembeddedness of the economy from social relations. The neoliberal economy has become pure abstraction; as has ...
Neoliberal globalization, the economic order which has reigned for the last forty years, has been premised on free trade, with the United States government playing a key role in managing global ...
The abandonment of Soviet urban planning approaches, the liberalization of appertaining legislation, confusion under the pressure of business priorities, and the lack of a national urban strategy make ...
Foroohar is an assistant managing editor at TIME and the magazine’s economics columnist. She’s the author of Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business. Early this month, ...
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome back to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Washington. And joining us again from Amherst, Massachusetts, from the PERI institute studio is Gerard Dumenil. He ...
It’s official, according to a speech by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, the United States is jumping off the neoliberal globalization bandwagon (a root cause of domestic extremism) and it ...
This article was first posted on the author’s blog. "No, I am not trying to make lemonade out of lemons. But I do think that it is important to recognize that the Trump victory was far from a slam ...
If I had started reading the recent column by Financial Times columnist Rana Foroohar, “Free trade has not made us free,” in the middle of the piece, I would have first come across this sentence: “Our ...
Globalization is not a new phenomenon. As evolutionary anthropologist Peter Turchin noted in a recent blog post, it’s something that happens in pulses, or waves — starting with waves of Afro-Eurasian ...
Apocalyptic accounts of globalization bringing about the end of the welfare state (and the nation state) have been countered by political-institutionalist views of adaptation. Such views treat ...