Matt Bruenig

It’s worse than you think.

The Alaska Permanent Fund (APF), it is the most socialist government program in the country, but it earns conservative acclaim.

Most don’t have the option not to.

Cory Booker shouldn’t have to rescue his neighbor from a burning building.

The problem with libertarian and right-wing notions of liberty is not just that they implode; it’s that there is a more plausible notion of liberty offered up by progressives that is only achievable through leftist political economy.

Had we put a different set of institutions into place, we could have avoided the inequitable distribution of income that we have seen over the past thirty years.

It would take only 1 percent of GDP, or a fourth of what we spend on defense every year, to lift every American below the poverty line up above it.

The creeping expansion of free market tendencies always comes up against the forces of individuals fighting for their own freedoms and keeping the economic system in check. 

If you average all income groups together, black median wealth is less than 1/3rd of white median wealth.