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Frank Pasquale
Can Angela Merkel circumvent Trump to build a multipolar alliance on climate change?
Paul Hockenos
When it comes to globalization, slowing down is the best way forward.
Andrew Schrank
Trump's infrastructure proposal is more propaganda than plan.
Max B. Sawicky
The American Health Care Act has a long history that returns us to the New Deal and its critics.
Lawrence B. Glickman
Tech billionaires love to declare the death of liberal arts, but could they instead be the future of Silicon Valley?
Tom Slee
Building a national identity may require offering special accomodations to diverse groups, including those we don't agree with.
Rogers M. Smith
How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.
Melinda Cooper
Polanyi gave us a vital counterpoint to the hegemony of political economics. But how far can he take us?
Jeremy Adelman
Focusing on the top 1 percent is a mistake. The real class divide is between the upper middle class and the rest of America.
Richard V. Reeves
Trump's policies spell disaster for economic equality. And the worst is yet to come.
Lauren Carasik
Unions are being strangled by laws that block workers from organizing, striking, and acting in solidarity. Becoming a rights-based movement is the only way to save labor.
James Gray Pope, Ed Bruno, Peter Kellman
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