As the city prepares for the World Cup in 2026 and the Olympics two years later, longtime residents are being forced out.

The federal government is pretty good at handling the unique problems of seniors. Why don't we do the same for parents and kids?

Efforts to diversify the industry might be having the opposite effect. And although puzzles are an important part of The New York Times’ business strategy, only a handful of people actually make a living from crosswords.

The simplest way to fight global warming and injustice at the same time would be for the world’s richest countries to end the vicious debt cycle that forces poor countries to exploit natural resources.

A new report on corporate excess shows how the explosion of stock buybacks is exacerbating economic inequality.

We heard Democrats were having “messaging” problems. Here’s a solution.

The franchise model makes hurting workers inevitable.

Of course not. But that’s what they make as they profit from the inflation that’s hurting the middle class.

There was once a thriving Black middle class based on farm ownership. But during the twentieth century, the USDA helped erase that source of wealth.

Howard Schultz, Starbucks’s returning CEO, says the coffee chain is getting into scammy NFTs. But that’s nothing compared to the scam that corporations have been pulling on workers for decades now.

Esplanade Gardens was trumpeted as a way to build wealth for middle-class Black New Yorkers. But its crumbling infrastructure shows how the government gave up on affordable housing.

Why labor can’t compete with real estate

The pandemic widened the gaps between the haves and have-nots—thus sowing the seeds of the next pandemic.

Two years ago, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic. Here’s what we’ve learned—and refused to learn—as the virus rages on.

Simple overall stats don’t show the truth of the housing crisis.

An interview with Geoconda Argüello-Kline, who retired this month after 10 years leading the most successful private-sector union local in America

The message that could galvanize voters in the midterms is at Democrats’ fingertips. Why do they resist grabbing it?

A new administration report has great ideas, but only Congress can give labor real power, and the filibuster’s getting in the way.

“If we’ve already been lifting people out of poverty, why for heaven’s sakes would we want to throw them back in poverty?”

Monopoly power didn’t cause inflation. Pretending it did undermines the fight to revive antitrust.