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Class & Inequality

How a new class of “salts”—radicals who take jobs to help unionization—is boosting the organizing efforts of long-term workers.

Mie Inouye

For decades, UK-based financial institutions have exploited loopholes to subvert regulations and shield the wealthy from scrutiny.

Oliver Bullough, Daniel Penny

As the neoliberal order unravels, the international economic system can and must make room for cooperative forms of state-driven development.

Nic Johnson, Robert Manduca

The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.

Raj Patel

The commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.

Max Haiven

T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.

Robin D. G. Kelley

By casting doubt on multiracial working-class solidarity, Jay Caspian Kang's critique of professional identity politics fails on its own terms.

Lucy Song
How microeconomic reasoning took over the very institutions of American governance.
Simon Torracinta

Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril.

Emily Callaci
Cities must empower historically marginalized communities to shape how public funds are spent.
Celina Su
Rosie Gillies
–and other questions, as the controversial case is set to go before the Supreme Court.
Racial redress should be modeled on the global anticolonial tradition of worldbuilding.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Why we should err on the side of inaction—and why we won’t.
Jonathan Kirshner
Monopoly power has certainly harmed workers, but the solution should be a wholesale rethinking of economic policy—not an embrace of perfectly competitive markets.
Brian Callaci

Well-meaning nonprofits don’t go far enough in the fight against gentrification. Residents themselves must be in charge, and neighborhood trusts point the way.

Joseph Margulies

Intrinsic to what we hate about work is that we can’t imagine life outside of it.

Madeline Lane-McKinley

Final response: To innovate is to be human.

Dan Breznitz

Indigenous worldviews demonstrate that a radically different kind of innovation is possible.

Tony Roberts, Andrea Jimenez Cisneros

Innovation is a social endeavor. We must not forget the need to invest in and sustain its social infrastructure.

Josh Whitford

Why should innovation-based growth be at the top of regional policymaking agendas?

Andrew L. Russell

No single strategy will fit all places, but the revitalization of Detroit could provide a model for other cities.

Reynolds Farley

Innovations come in all shapes and sizes, but the digital is key.

Ro Khanna

Successful innovation hubs depend on who is leading, and how.

Ben Armstrong

Innovation is not just for elites. The poor and rural innovate all the time, using what they have.

Yuen Yuen Ang

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