The pattern signals a deeper truth: our economics and the survival of our species are deeply at odds.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Best of 2023: Ramenda Cyrus
Our John Lewis Writing Fellow offers her favorites from this year.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Q&A: Arin Dube on the Benefits of Full Employment
The UMass professor details a reduction in wage inequality unseen in the U.S. in half a century.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Monopolies and Maps Are Killing ‘Internet for All’
The $65 million moon shot to bring every American affordable broadband is failing low-income communities of color.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Curious Partner in Big Banks’ Drive to Weaken Capital Rules
Why are civil rights groups and Black mayors concerned with the profits of giant financial institutions?
Posted inPodcasts
Corporate Bullsh*t
Nick Hanauer and Joan Walsh explain how rich people lie to benefit themselves.
Posted inWorking in America
Nefarious Corporate Overlord Accidentally Kick-Starts Media Company
Gamurs Group fired the editor in chief of The Escapist. Most of the publication joined him to start something new, a worker cooperative called Second Wind.
Posted inPodcasts
The Neoliberal Education Fantasy
Neil Kraus discusses his new book about why education reform failed.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Debunking the Latest Attack on Social Security
Warmed-over arguments claim that the old have it too good at the expense of the young. But the real division in America isn’t generation—it’s class.
