Economic policies have profound effects on ... to assess the respective roles of greed and grievance as drivers of civil war. Opportunities for the plunder of natural resources were found to ...

A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict.

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...

The first shots of the trade war between the United States and Canada have been fired. Whether it escalates beyond the ...

As civil war pounds Myanmar's economy and drives up prices, garment worker Wai Wai often starts her shift making clothes for international brands on an empty stomach. The orders she and thousands ...

MSNBC contributor Matthew Dowd, Thursday on "The ReidOut," compared Trump voters to poor white people who sided with slave owners during the Civil War against their own economic interests ...