⏩ Climate, Immigration, and Monopolies: Watch Our March/April Issue Event
Our staff and contributors discuss climate change, corporate monopolies, and immigration during the COVID pandemic.
⏩ Alex Sammon Speaks About Amazon’s Global Dominance on The Young Turks
Staff Writer Alex Sammon speaks to Ryan Grim, elaborating on his review of Alec MacGillis’s book about Amazon.
Reconceiving the American Future
A new book argues that the vision of the United States as a ‘majority-minority’ society is a statistical illusion.
Change Our Minds, Change the World
Two new books on the false narratives undermining public policy
The Berkeley School
In recent years, economics has grown more concerned about inequality and how to fix it. The instigators of this epochal progressive shift ply their trade at UC Berkeley.
The Promise of Offshore Wind
We can create good jobs and clean, cheap power by bringing back production as well as accelerating installation.
The Case for Taking Back Solar
Installing a lot more solar is part of the path to clean, renewable energy. But we also need to be producing the entire supply chain.
Something in the Water
Should a water authority be privatized to rescue a municipality’s finances? The story of Chester, Pennsylvania, and its environs is an alarming harbinger of things to come.
Islands in the Stream
Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.
Amazon Has a Good Job for You Too!
An illustration from our March/April 2021 issue
Down and Out in Eviction Court
Despite the pandemic, eviction filings and proceedings continue. Philadelphia has found a better way—for now.
Will Biden Be Radical Enough?
He’s off to a great start, but decent pay and better life chances for working people will require even more drastic change.
A Year of Border Lockdown, and Counting
How Biden is defending a Trump-era immigration policy
In Bezosworld
Amazon achieved its world-historical dominance thanks to failed policy and government largesse.
Workers Making COVID Test Kits Exposed to COVID
At Access Bio in New Jersey, mostly Latina immigrant temp workers lacking protections on the job face hazardous conditions.
