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Class & Inequality

Will Amazon Take Over the World?

What the rise of megaplatforms means for the rest of us.

Frank Pasquale

Politics

At G20, All Eyes on Germany

Can Angela Merkel circumvent Trump to build a multipolar alliance on climate change?

Paul Hockenos

Class & Inequality

A Defense of Slowbalization

When it comes to globalization, slowing down is the best way forward.

Andrew Schrank

Politics

How Trump Builds: On the Hollow Promise of #InfrastructureWeek

Trump's infrastructure proposal is more propaganda than plan.

Max B. Sawicky

Politics

The Conservative Con That Gave Us Trumpcare

The American Health Care Act has a long history that returns us to the New Deal and its critics.

Lawrence B. Glickman

Science & Nature

Silicon Valley to Liberal Arts Majors: We Want You

Tech billionaires love to declare the death of liberal arts, but could they instead be the future of Silicon Valley?

Tom Slee

Politics

America's Case of Mistaken Identity

Building a national identity may require offering special accomodations to diverse groups, including those we don't agree with.

Rogers M. Smith

Class & Inequality

All in the Family Debt

How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.

Melinda Cooper

Class & Inequality

Polanyi, the Failed Prophet of Moral Economics

Polanyi gave us a vital counterpoint to the hegemony of political economics. But how far can he take us?

Jeremy Adelman

Class & Inequality

The Dream Hoarders: How America's Top 20 Percent Perpetuates Inequality

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

Class & Inequality

Trump's Sleight of Hand Will Bring Ruin to American Workers

Trump's policies spell disaster for economic equality. And the worst is yet to come.

Lauren Carasik

Forum

The Right to Strike

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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