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Far from spelling the end of anti-market politics, basic income proposals are one place where it can and has flourished.
Being serious about equality means aiming to ensure we all live equally flourishing lives—not merely that we have the chance to do so.
Tax breaks for investors don’t help poor communities. Rather than court venture capital, cities must build new institutions to grow neighborhood wealth.
Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says "it's the economy, stupid." The truth is more complicated.
For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.
Contemporary life has been deeply molded by financialization. But the speculative imagination can also be a tool for building a more just world.
The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.
Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.
Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.
Robin D. G. Kelley on the midterm elections.
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