America Beyond Capitalism
By Gar Alperovitz | November 11th
How thousands of co-ops, worker-owned businesses, land trusts, and municipal enterprises are quietly beginning to democratize the deep substructure of the American economic system.Read more »
The 99%, the 1%, and Class Struggle
By Alejandro Reuss | November 3rd
Examining an #OccupyWallStreet slogan from the point of view of the source of people’s income—from wages, or from property? Read more »
Cops for Labor?
By Kristian Williams | October 3rd
Police support for protesters, as happened briefly in Wisconsin in February, is an exception to the historical rule. Read more »
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The People’s Budget
By John Miller | September 20th
A plan to get deficit-reduction off our backs. Read more »
Rank-and-File Economics
By Katherine Sciacchitano | September 13th
Riddle 1: When is a recovery not a recovery?
Riddle 2: When is a stimulus not a stimulus?
Riddle 3: When will it be possible to rebuild the economy? Read more »
Conflicting Dreams at Boeing
By Josh Eidelson | August 26th
The right wing is apoplectic about the recent NLRB ruling against Boeing. But what do workers have to say about the strikes that made Boeing a flashpoint? Read more »
The EPA: A Phantom Menace
By Heidi Garrett-Peltier | August 26th
Environmental regulations are not “job-killers” after all. Read more »
Fiscal Austerity: The Wrong Medicine
By Alejandro Reuss | August 2nd
Fiscal austerity during a slump is like cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face—except that it is other people’s noses that the pro-austerity faction aims to lop off. Read more »
Wrong about Right-to-Work
By John Miller | July 20th
This time, it’s right-to-work laws, not taxes, that come in for the full Laffer treatment (although without the illustration on the back of a cocktail napkin). Read more »
The Purloined Trillions
By James M. Cypher | July 11th
In 2009 alone, bosses pocketed an estimated $1.91 trillion that 40 years ago would have gone to workers. Read more »
Universal Health Care:
Can We Afford Anything Less?
By Gerald Friedman | June 29th
Why only a single-payer system can solve America’s health-care mess. Read more »
Are Low Wages and Job Loss Inevitable?
By Arthur MacEwan | June 15th
Dear Dr. Dollar:
The main narrative that I hear in mainstream press is that U.S. workers are being undercut and eventually displaced by global competition. Is this right? Read more »
Do Lower Tax Rates Really Increase Government Revenue?
By Alejandro Reuss | June 1st
A co-worker of mine said that, when tax rates go down, the government actually collects more money from taxes. How is that even possible? Read more »
From Public Meat Markets
to Derivatives Markets
By Polly Cleveland | May 16th
What are the lessons from old New York for today’s derivatives markets? Read more »
Teachers, Secretaries, Social Workers:
The New Welfare Moms?
By Randy Albelda | May 4th
Today’s debates over public-sector workers are strikingly similar to the welfare “reform” battles of the 1990s. Read more »
Jobs, Deficits, and the Misguided Squabble over the Debt Ceiling.
By Tim Koechlin | August 5th
Why the absurd squabble over the debt ceiling was distracting, destructive, and almost entirely beside the point. Read more »
Local Activism against Wal-Mart
Corporate Power, Wal-Mart and the Undermining of the Democratic Process
By Joel Harrison | April 13, 2011
Is the Wal-Mart Way the American Way?
By Martin J. Bennett | April 13, 2011
Why Is the Government Buying Long-Term Bonds?
By Alejandro Reuss | January 19th, 2011
Questions and Answers on the Fed’s “QE2” program. Read more »
The Greatest Recovery, Part II
By Mark Provost | January 19th, 2011
The Greatest Recovery in corporate profits and the Great Recession are two sides of the same coin. Read more »
The Greatest Recovery, Part I
By Mark Provost | December 16th, 2010
The Greatest Recovery in corporate profits and the Great Recession are two sides of the same coin. Read more »
The Deficit Commission and Redistribution
By Darwin BondGraham | November 23rd, 2010
President Obama’s Deficit Commission has proposed a plan to rewrite the social contract, and to make the poor and middle class pay. Read more »
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Laffer’s Latest Curve Ball
By John Miller | October 18th, 2010
Arthur Laffer is peddling more of the same bad tax policy as he inveighs against Washington State Initiative 1098, which would tax state residents with incomes over $200,000. Read more »
The Jobs Crisis and the Art of Flexible Labor
By Dan DiMaggio | October 18th, 2010
The bizarre experience that over 500 other workers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area had recently sheds some light on the growing expectations of absolute “flexibility” if you want a job. Read more »
Arctic Power...with Added Cleansers
By Maurice Dufour | February 17th, 2010
All the negative press over Canada’s dirty oil is taking its toll on our national psyche. For years, our self-image as responsible environmental stewards had made us smug; now Canada’s just another carbon thug. Read more »
Haiti’s Fault Lines: Made in the U.S.A.
By Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly | February 4th, 2010
Pace Pat Robertson, the devil had little to do with Haiti’s underdevelopment. Instead, the fingerprints of more mundane actors—France and later the United States—are all over the crime scene. Read more »
A Vision of Economic Justice
By Howard Zinn | January 29th, 2010
For our 30th-anniversary issue (Nov/Dec 2004), we asked prominent leftists to “describe their vision of a more economically just world 30 years hence, and to outline what they consider the most important steps to take today to move toward that vision.” Here’s the still-timely contribution from Howard Zinn, who died on January 27th. Read more »
Economic Rights, Then and Now
By Susan Feiner | January 11th, 2010
What is the state of the economic rights that FDR unveiled in his “Second Bill of Rights” 66 years ago? Read more »
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