Ninety-year-old complex has been plagued with social and structural problems for decades

Public records about North Cork Creameries’ operations paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing

Everyone is told that economic growth is the key to prosperity. But what if a significant part of GDP, the number politicians obsess about, is based on a transaction that never actually happens? Aroun...

The Guardian columnist speaks about why we need to tackle global food insecurity

For decades, rising home prices have been an engine for middle-class wealth. Now a growing movement wants to slow — or even reverse — that trend. Are the politics around new housing development inhere...

What happened to the future? When did we lose it, and what has taken its place? Political scientists have found a continual decline in visions of a shared

Hence, the severe restrictions in the flow of oil though the Strait of Hormuz, resulting from the recent US-Iranian attacks, may be seen as a stark rehearsal for the consequences of a severe shock in the global oil supply, as might be experienced from a "peak oil" crisis, with volatile price spikes and supply chain disruptions.

A world without limits

But to the extent that economic growth and carbon-fuel usage are tightly linked – and not capable of being “decoupled” – some degrowth agenda is ultimately inescapable. The only question may be whether it will arrive via catastrophe or choice.

Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

Madeleine Finlay hears from Nick Stern, professor of economics and government at the London School of Economics, and Jason Hickel, a political economist and professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, two economists arguing for a change in how we measure a country’s economic success.

- Who owns the economy? - Who pays the price for the never-ending thirst for economic growth? - How are communities resisting?

If the EU wants to meet its economic and environmental goals, it needs to reject deregulation in favour of a bolder approach

States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

Abundance is the precondition of socialism, but socialism is also the precondition of abundance.

The EU-Mercosur trade agreement will benefit a handful of big corporations while driving deforestation, the climate crisis and exposing small-scale farmers to unfair competition. Join our call and say...

If Luas Finglas is delivered on time, there will have been a 15-year gap since the last Luas extension

The Money is is talking us into autocracy - we shouldn't let it Money is talking us into autocracy by appropriating the common good to serve the 1%, but the common good isn't promoted by squashing peo...

Clane–Maynooth Independent Councillor Pádraig McEvoy - one of a group taking a High Court challenge against the Government’s new apartment planning standards - says developers, business figures some G...

Why is it now widely considered acceptable to heap pollutants in to lakes until the ecosystems they once sustained are eliminated?