Class & Inequality
Saving Bidenomics
Biden’s industrial policy program promises a massive shift from decades of neoliberal orthodoxy. Can it deliver inclusive gains in time?
A Different Freedom
American empire pushes freedom down a corrosive path—but that path is not the only one.
A Grassroots Government
Janice Fine explains how “co-enforcement”—a bold new model for upholding labor law—is linking the state to social movements.
What Are Families For?
A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can’t sustain.
How Not to Do Industrial Policy
Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the U.S. did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.
Solidarity Now
To make change, movements need to build endurance—the capacity to keep people showing up despite their differences.
An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University
The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.
How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth?
Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.
Bond Villains
How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality.
Neville Alexander’s Struggle Against Racial Capitalism
The late South African intellectual and activist—imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela—fought for a world without race and class.
How Misreading Adam Smith Helped Spawn Deaths of Despair
A Nobel Prize–winning economist reflects on the dire consequences of libertarian economics.
Can Innovation Serve the Public Good?
Not as it’s traditionally done, but there are more equitable models.
The Localist
Why did Chicago become the headquarters of free market fundamentalism? Adam Smith offers a clue.
Why Unions Need More Democracy
In Rules to Win By, Jane McAlevey and Abby Lawlor reject backroom dealmaking. Rank-and-file workers are going even further.
Escape from the Market
Basic income proposals threaten the market order—which is why they keep being beaten back, even though some capitalists support them.
Is Equal Opportunity Enough?
Focusing on opportunities instead of outcomes is misguided—politically and philosophically.
The Earth for Man
Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.
Workplace Data Is a Tool of Class Warfare
Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.
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