Globalization

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  • "Moving to India is not a luxury. It is a necessity"

    American workers won't like what venture capitalist Ravi Chiruvolu says about why his tech start-ups are built using Indian workers. But they'd better listen.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski December 17, 2003

  • "This is not America"

    In Miami, police unleashed unprecedented fury on demonstrators -- most of them seniors and union members. Is this how Bush's war on terror will be fought at home?
    By Michelle Goldberg December 16, 2003

  • Global trade = global warming

    Free trade may help struggling economies -- but the trucks and planes needed to move goods around the world will flood the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.
    By Kumar Venkat December 11, 2003

  • Notes from an activist: After Miami, what next?

    Direct action offers a thrill at once addictive and searing, but this movement needs to grow, or we will only be speaking to ourselves.
    By Marisa Handler November 24, 2003

  • Notes from an activist: Running with the Black Bloc

    On a day of chaos and confrontation between riot police and protesters in Miami, stereotypes are broken and solidarity is forged.
    By Marisa Handler November 21, 2003

  • Notes from an activist: Preparing for the showdown

    On Day 2, tension starts to rise as thousands of protesters plan for a collision with thousands of police.
    By Marisa Handler November 20, 2003

  • Notes from an activist: Welcome to Miami

    On my first day in South Florida, here to conduct direct action protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas conference, obstacles loom, but the spirit surges.
    By Marisa Handler November 19, 2003

  • Gone in the blink of an eye

    Berkeley researchers declare 14 million U.S. jobs are at risk of being outsourced.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski November 5, 2003

  • Welcome to the machine?

    Consumers love ATMs, self-checkout machines and airport boarding-pass kiosks. But what about the workers who get automated out of existence?
    By Farhad Manjoo September 18, 2003

  • White-collar sweatshops

    "Globalization" is becoming a dirty word to U.S. tech workers, increasingly angry and anxious as their jobs disappear overseas, never to return.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski July 2, 2003

  • The Bush economy doesn't play in Peoria

    The president says a big tax cut for the rich will create jobs for the hard-hit middle class. In this city of faded glory, few believe him.
    By Patrick Arden April 30, 2003

  • Building the underground computer railroad

    Anti-globalization activists in Oakland, Calif., are recycling old machines, loading them with free software and shipping them off to Ecuador.
    By Farhad Manjoo September 23, 2002

  • The not-so-sweet success of organic farming

    Pesticide-free, non-genetically modified food is a big, global business now. But, ironically, small farmers are getting the shaft.
    By Linda Baker July 29, 2002

  • The new gilded age and its discontents

    Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about the corporate looting spree and Bush's woeful mismanagement of the economy.
    By Damien Cave July 3, 2002

  • Old McDonald had a subsidy

    Congress is set to hand over $170 billion to farmers. But to one grower of fava beans in California's Central Valley, the money isn't just bad economics -- it's an outright insult.
    By Damien Cave May 1, 2002

  • A reprimand for Reebok

    The running shoes company wanted to give a big cash prize to an Indonesian labor activist. But Dita Sari said no.
    By Leslie Dwyer March 25, 2002

  • The man who bought the world

    Liberals love George Soros because he supports good causes. But his life also shows that if you make enough money, you don't have to obey anybody's rules.
    By Andrew Leonard February 28, 2002

  • Takin' it to the suites

    Forget the media spectacle on the streets -- the real rabble-rousing at the World Economic Forum is happening inside.
    By Arianna Huffington February 1, 2002

  • Out of the ashes

    The terror attacks have put globalization's critics on the defensive -- but have also given new momentum to their struggle.
    By Mark Schapiro November 16, 2001

  • The real enemies of the poor

    G-8 defenders tried to depict Genoa protesters as affluent and out of touch, but the anti-globalization movement is wringing aid out of rich nations -- over Bush's shameful objections.
    By David Moberg July 23, 2001

  • Will free trade kill democracy?

    Thousands of protesters send out an SOS in Quebec: Governments are giving corporations free rein to negotiate a hemispheric trade pact.
    By David Moberg April 23, 2001

  • Free trade, closed talks

    As authorities build a wall around the FTAA summit in Quebec City, anti-globalization protesters are hoping to infiltrate the discussion.
    By Daryl Lindsey April 20, 2001

  • Follow the money

    From shrimp farms in Thailand to electric blanket makers in Maine, one woman's journey rips the lid off the "global economy."
    By Andrew Leonard April 16, 2001

  • Thousands protest Bush's Inauguration

    Demonstrators lining the parade route give the new presidential limo an unwelcome splash on its way to the White House.
    By Daryl Lindsey January 20, 2001

  • Don't blame Ralph

    If Gore fails, that failure will belong to him and the Democrats -- not to Nader or his supporters.
    By Bruce Shapiro November 5, 2000
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