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Mie Inouye and Daniel Martinez HoSang discuss the challenges of organizing in a society that tears groups apart.
Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the United States did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.
Far from a metaphysical battle between fanaticism and tolerance, the Rushdie affair exemplifies the marketization of hurt sentiments.
Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.
To escape the imperial legacies of the IMF and World Bank, we need a radical new vision for global economic governance.
For decades, UK-based financial institutions have exploited loopholes to subvert regulations and shield the wealthy from scrutiny.
The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.
Financial globalization was supposed to spur development. Instead it transfers money to the Global North and exacerbates existing inequalities.
Center-left parties should learn that small-bore solutions are a waste of time.
The neofascist assault on democracy is a last-ditch effort on the part of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis. The only solution is a decisive retreat from globalized finance.
Markets have played a central role in the country’s explosive development since the 1980s. But as GDP rose, inequality has soared—a stark turn away from earlier socialist ideals.
Mainstream economics ignores the massive government interventions that “free market” capitalism requires.
Noam Chomsky on his new book, the Capitol coup attempt, 2020 unrest, and the prospects for progress under Biden.
Narendra Modi’s government has used lockdown to force further neoliberalization and continue its assault on pro-democracy activists.
If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.
Leaders of the left abandoned the language of transformation in the 1980s—at a cost. Can it be regained?
Many reject privatization for its distributional consequences. The deeper problem is that it threatens the very foundation of political legitimacy.
The government—not the market—is the only viable solution to some of our greatest challenges.
Working people are forever kept on the brink of going broke. More than higher wages and better job security, a just economy requires giving them the power to choose and create their own futures.
Internationalists are plotting their return, but they still haven’t learned from the failure of liberal universalism.
For the sake of justice and democracy, we need a progressive wealth tax.
For the sake of justice and democracy, we need a progressive wealth tax.
They can give up free-market orthodoxy, but still can’t bring themselves to embrace labor.
A new, neoliberal interpretation of the First Amendment is undermining the regulatory state—and every labeling and advertising law is now in the crosshairs.
For decades, shareholder primacy has obscured the fact that employees should do well when businesses do well.
For five decades Anglophone political philosophy has been dominated by the liberal egalitarianism of John Rawls. With liberalism in crisis, have these ideas outlived their time?
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