Finland, a civilized nation near the top of the world, has decided to end its experiment providing a basic income to citizens. This will prompt predictable reactions from predictable factions. But ...

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 ...

Capitalism’s recurring crises have long fueled predictions of its inevitable demise. Vivek Chibber explains why breakdown isn’t guaranteed — and why political agency, not historical laws, will ...

Swiss activists dumped 8 million five-cent coins in front of Parliament and submitted 130,000 signatures in favor of a UBI referendum. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images) In America today ...

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When I began this thought experiment of writing letters to a world eight decades in the future, I needed a handle on what that meant. So I thought about how different the world was eight decades in ...

Near the end of our conversation, Gwenno Saunders (who releases music simply under her first name) asks me what channels of media exist in the U.S. for other languages beyond English. Raised on the ...

MSNBC's Ali Velshi speaks with Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang about his idea to implement a $1,000 per month universal basic income, which he calls the "Freedom Dividend." Yang says the ...

A Thai investor reacts to falling share prices after China’s economic slide this August. (Rungroj Yongrit/European Pressphoto Agency) Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores ...