Class & Inequality
Amazon after Bessemer
Unions are just one element of a broader push to transform the company. Coalitions forged during the pandemic point the way forward—with a radical vision of worker and community control.
The New Politics of Higher Education
The right’s fantasy of left power on campus has never been accurate.
“The People Really Have the Power”
Noam Chomsky on the Capitol coup attempt, 2020 unrest, and the Biden administration.
The Violent Embrace
The Atlanta shooter comes from a culture that connects Asian women to sex and violence. It has its origins in U.S. wars—particularly the Korean War—and is fueled by our continued military presence in Asia.
Time Is the Universal Measure of Freedom
Labor activists once understood time to be a checking mechanism on market activity.
A More Perfect Meritocracy
Two new books take aim at the moral failures of meritocracy. But we can advocate for a more just society without giving up on merit.
What We Still Get Wrong About Alexander Hamilton
Far from a partisan for free markets, the Founding Father insisted on the need for economic planning. We need more of that vision today.
The Gadfly of American Plutocracy
Thorstein Veblen was the most important economic thinker of the Gilded Age.
How Latin America Reimagined Classical Economics
The region has a long legacy of critical engagement with classical political economy, helping to change the way we think about markets and morals.
COVID-19 Provides All the More Reason to Tax the Rich
Tax policies like New Jersey’s new Millionaires Tax are essential—not only for an equitable recovery, but also for reining in pre-pandemic inequality.
The World Henry Ford Made
On the global legacy of Fordist mass production—and its appeal on both the left and the right.
Political Economy After Neoliberalism
The government—not the market—is the only viable solution to some of our greatest challenges.
Colonizing the Future
Working people are forever kept on the brink of going broke—preventing them from having any control over their own futures.
U.S. Politics is Failing Children
Everyone agrees that child poverty is a problem. Why are Democrats and Republicans so bad at addressing it?
Six Labor Policies We Need Now
Workers deserve substantive policy reforms that point the way to a better future, especially in this year of unprecedented crisis.
Beyond the Neoliberal University
Astra Taylor talks with Rutgers faculty union president Todd Wolfson about organizing academic communities in the age of COVID-19.
Pigs and Capital
The meat business has become a vast, fragile beast teetering on the brink of ecological and financial ruin.
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