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Stock buybacks are on the rise, and they are shortchanging workers and undermining our economy like never before.
Lenore Palladino
The critique of identity politics ignores the role that neoliberalism and neoconservatism have played in creating our present situation.
Samuel Moyn
Yanis Varoufakis's lessons for reasserting European social democracy.
J. W. Mason
Forget retraining and compensation programs. History offers a better way forward.
Suzanne Berger
Erdogan is all too easily labelled a populist. But the reasons for his popularity are more complicated.
Engin Önder
Platforms have sold themselves as substitutes for welfare, but they have actually served as substitutes for traditional work—with the state forced to pick up the slack.
Clara Hendrickson
Taxation is at the heart of any serious economic growth policy.
Felicia Wong
On the long road from FDR to Trump.
Lawrence B. Glickman
By attacking higher education, the new tax bill belies the GOP's ambitious political motivations. The investment we make in young adults today, after all, determines the electorate we have in the future.
Michael Whinston
The modes of perception and living that we attribute to Instagram are rooted in a much older aesthetic of the picturesque.
Daniel Penny
Nixon’s embrace of “black capitalism” was a canny move that ultimately decimated the black community and turned the wealth gap into a wealth chasm.
Mehrsa Baradaran
J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy has been held up as a guidebook for understanding the 2016 election, but his logic is rooted in an enduring and dangerous myth about race in Appalachia.
Elizabeth Catte
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