It was 2015, and the city of Missoula, Montana, was fighting to take control of its water supply. Missoula’s privately owned waterworks had recently been sold to Mountain Water, a company owned by the ...

Last August, when the school year began at Tyner Academy in Chattanooga, Tennessee, nearly 100 students walked out to protest the conditions at their public school building. These students were ...

Handing public assets and services over to the free market has been a boon for corporate America and a disaster for the working class. The evidence is in and the verdict is clear: Privatization is bad ...

A few years ago, Chicago residents accustomed to parking on the street got a rude shock. Parking-meter rates had suddenly gone up as much as fourfold. Some meters jammed and overflowed when they ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. In Dillon Beach, California, residents pay four to six times ...

Younger workers can wait out market dips, but those about to retire have less of a cushion against portfolio losses, making safer Social Security savings all the more important. If GOP survives the ...

Britain's Labor Party politicians had promoted state-owned enterprise, before and after World War II, as an almost altruistic undertaking. "The public corporation must be no mere capitalist business, ...

How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network, by Shane Greenstein, Princeton University Press, 488 pages, $35 In 1991, the internet was one data ...