Cinco de Mayo has become a heavily commercialized celebration, losing its real meaning along the way. No, it's not Mexican ...

We live in a society that commodifies everything from emotional vulnerability and love to heartbreak and grief to art and trash. What is the newest way to center consumerism in your life?

Consumers are increasingly realigning toward conscious consumerism, where they want to buy from brands aligned with their values. One poll shows that, in the United States, 40% of Americans have ...

With social media content pushing the narrative of the 'perfect life', we need to regain focus on inner values versus ...

Defending his tariffs, Trump keeps bringing up children's dolls to explain how he wants people to buy less stuff. But ...

Everyone claims to only want to buy the products that are best for the planet and society, and yet, few people do. But people aren’t just lying to themselves, there are larger forces at work.

Is this the end of consumerism as we know it? By Madeleine Acey The sharing economy takes advantage of connected mobile technology to allow people to rent things temporarily that they either don't ...

This kind of consumption can have adverse effects on the environment and society. Consumerism — particularly disproportionate use and spending — contributes to climate change and wealth inequality, ...

By portraying what they observed in society, Pop artists reflected the multi-sided nature of consumerism and its relationship with the public. Sometimes those observations were affirmative ...

College students create an obscene amount of waste when moving out of dorm rooms. Our columnist demands consumers be mindful ...

Living in a capitalist society, we are reliant upon mass production ... This is nothing new, but when consumerism impacts the arts, I feel an especially unpleasant form of disenchantment, as ...