Special Report

• Wal-Mart -- It's Alive!

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  If Wal-Mart is a person, as the Supreme Court contends, it's a behemoth terrorizing the countryside. But when it comes to workers' rights, it remains curiously immune from lawsuits.

• Fighting Back

  Liza Featherstone

  What the unions have learned—and what they may still need to learn—about fighting Wal-Mart's expansion

• Wal-Mart’s China Connections

  Anita Chan, Jonathan Unger

  From production to retailing, Wal-Mart’s China operations display a 
dystopian collaboration between low-wage employer and autocratic state.

• Wal-Mart Tries to Go to Town

  Nelson Lichtenstein

  America’s mega-retailer can’t boost profits unless it gains entry to America’s 
largest cities. Against stiff resistance, it’s still trying.

• Which Path for Europe?

  Harold Meyerson

  Wal-Mart couldn’t cut it in Germany. But while neighboring Scandinavia still pays retail workers well, the low-wage model is making inroads into other European countries.

• How Wal-Mart Shapes the World

  David Moberg

  Will the economy follow Wal-Mart’s race to the bottom—or will social 
counterweights and other business models demonstrate a better way?

• The Greening of Wal-Mart

  Jonathan Rowe

  Wal-Mart’s new green-washed image is deflecting attention from the drag the company continues to inflict on workers’ wages and communities’ quality of life.