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  Libor Rigging Redux

  JOHN SUMMA

  Was there a third dimension to the Libor scandal? | Read more »

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  Pandemic Mail

  Christy Pottroff | March 27

  Reimagining the role of the U.S. Postal Service during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic by looking to the past. | Read more »

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  Free to Lose

  JOHN MILLER | March 16

  Selling out workers and retirees to their financial advisors. | Read more »

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  Caring by the Dollar

  Bill Barclay | March 4

  Nursing Homes, Private Equity, and Covid-19 | Read more »

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  Rolling Up the Welcome Mat
  at the Door to the Promised Land

  Interview with Ellora Derenoncourt | February 28

  The Economic History of the Great Migration and Its Aftermath | Read more »

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  Why Is Student Debt Cancelation a Big Deal?

  Arthur MacEwan | February 18

  Dear Dr. Dollar: I’ve noticed news reports about the possible cancellation of student debt. Why has this become such a big deal recently? | Read more »

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  Drugs and Global Capitalism

  Sasha Breger Bush | January 17

  The sheer size of the drug economy suggests its overwhelming centrality to the global economic system. | Read more »

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  The Stock Market and the Coronavirus Crisis

  John Miller | January 1

  Wall Street demands your money and your life. | Read more »

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  State and Local Austerity

  Amanda Page-Hoongrajok | December 19

  Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past? | Read more »

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  “Common Sense” Without Evidence Is Nonsense

  JOHN MILLER | November 25

  What are the actual effects of enhanced unemployment benefits? | Read more »

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  Solidarity Beyond the Crisis

  Francisco Pérez and Luis Feliz León | November 10

  How to Truly Build Back Better | Read more »

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  How to Fight a Coup:
  The Role of the Workers’ Movement

  Alejandro Reuss | October 28

  How union members can organize against an authoritarian threat. | Read more »

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  Has Neoliberalism Underfunded Schools?

  Arthur MacEwan | October 23

  An apparent contradiction about education funding can teach us a lesson about the possiblity of resistance under neoliberalism. | Read more »

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  How Green Is Joe Biden’s Green New Deal?

  JOHN MILLER | October 15

  Sorting out the good and the bad in the Democratic candidate’s climate-change policies. | Read more »

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  How to Stop Trump from Stealing the Election

  John W. Lawrence | October 9

  An Activist’s Checklist | Read more »

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  The Dangers of Private Debt

  Julian Jacobs | September 26

  High levels of household and corporate debt in the U.S. are making inequality worse and could make the recession deeper. | Read more »

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  Coronavirus, Capitalism,
  and the Workers’ Movement

  Alejandro Reuss | September 7

  Part 3: How Inequality Kills, and How to Fight It in the Era of Covid-19 | Read more »

Special to the Web:

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  Top Eleven D&S Graphs of 2018

  DOLLARS & SENSE | December 31

  From deindustrialization to guard labor to the tepid global recovery, the best graphs (and scariest data) of 2018. With a nod to Nigel Tufnel, we’re cranking it up to eleven! Read more »



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  Rosa Luxemburg and the Growth of the Labor Movement

  Gerald Friedman | January 15, 2016

  On the 97th anniversary of her death, an account of the importance of Luxemburg’s ideas for labor organizing. | Read more »

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  Debt and Development

  Alejandro Reuss | December 4, 2015

  If debt is a “trap” for developing countries, is there any way around it? | Read more »




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  Thirty Years of Farm Aid

  CAROLYN MUGAR, RHONDA PERRY, ROGER ALLISON, AND DAVID SENTER | July 14, 2015

  Reflections on Farm Aid by insiders as the organization supporting family farms celebrates its 30th anniversary. | Read more »

Earlier web-only articles, mostly on the financial crisis, dating back to December 2007.