Economics

Capitalism’s Unequal Distribution Deprives You of True Freedom

Manufacturing Jobs: Unions Made Them Good, Not the Factories

From the UK, a New Reminder Why Inequality Must Go

Who’s a Bigger Threat to Democracy—Immigrants, or Billionaires?

The Astonishing Success of the Wealthy at Accumulating More Wealth

Tariffs Don’t Protect Jobs. Don’t Be Fooled.

A Practical Prescription for Taxing Our World’s Richest

Don’t Buy The Tariff Lie

CPI Without Owner’s Equivalent Rent Has Been at Fed Target for a Year

Newsflash:  Inequality in Neoliberal America

From Massachusetts, Some Tax-the-Rich Inspiration

The Toughest Job Today’s Richest Ever Face?

How the UAW Could Change the South

The Well-Heeled and Our Personal Well-Being

Are the Flat Tax Folks Winning…or Have They Already Won?

The Strike of the Longshoremen: Seattle 1934

Mass Layoffs Have Our Rich Thriving … and Workers Writhing

The March CPI, the Inflation Picture, and the Fed

A Class Analysis of the Trump-Biden Rerun

We Need Housing, Not Hand Cuffs

To Trim Our Richest Down to Democratic Size, We Need to Think Big

Do We Need to Have a Cold War With China?

Shouldn’t Every American Enjoy the Luxury of a Roof?

Germany as Collateral Damage in America’s New Cold War

Corporate Profiteering Destroyed the Baltimore Bridge

Pessimism of the Intellect, Pessimism of the Will 

The Great Unwinding

Estimated 2.5 Million People Displaced by Tornadoes, Wildfires and Other Disasters in 2023 Tell a Story of Recovery in America and Who is Vulnerable

Do High Taxes on the Rich Make Any Sense?

An Interview with Paul Sweezy, a Giant of 20th Century Marxist Thinking

The Rent’s Still Too High!

Mass Layoff: Why the Teamsters Should Have Struck UPS

Biden’s Record on Income Growth

California State Faculty Mobilize for a No Vote

Must We Limit the Wealthy’s Wealth?

Neo-Liberalism is Not Dead, It Never Lived

How Redlining’s Legacies Demand New Policy Action

What Is to Be Done?

Job Growth Expands in December, Unemployment Stable at 3.7 Percent

The Rich Who Own the Home Next Door

The Education Department is a Loan Sharking Operation

Another Hardwood Shakedown: It’s Your Money or Your Team!

Colorado Can Sustain a Large Wolf Population

Socialism’s Self-Criticism and Real Democracy

Profit Shares Defy Projections, Not Coming Down

Prescription Drugs, Free Trade and the Washington Post

U.S. Poverty is More Entrenched Than Ever

Our Richest Can Move to Avoid Taxes, But Can They Hide?

Seeing Through the Economic Bait and Switch

China and Coal: If It Keeps Adding Wind and Solar, Who Will Use Coal?