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Wage Stagnation vs. Living Wages for U.S. Workers Today

Far from earning living wages, most U.S. workers have experienced wage stagnation since the 1970s--a trend largely obscured by political rhetoric and misinformation.

Robert Pollin Nov 3, 2025

Left Hook Economics

Inflation Haunting Halloween

A specter is haunting Halloween—the specter of inflation.

John Miller Oct 31, 2025

November/December 2025

Poverty and Deportees on the Streets in Tijuana

Photos by David Bacon and an Interview with Laura Velasco

David Bacon Oct 30, 2025

Issue 327: November/December 2016

Prospects for the Spanish Left

William Saas, Jorge Amar, David Glotzer,
and Scott Ferguson

What answer does Podemos have for austerity? Read more »
Nativism: As American as (Rotten) Apple Pie

Gerald Friedman

Trumpism is part of a long history of anti-immigrant sentiment, from Benjamin Franklin to the Know Nothings of the 1840s and the KKK of the 1920s. Read more »
Taxing the Wealthy and the Art of Sophistry

John Miller

Comparing the Clinton and Trump Tax Plans Read more »
European Social Democracy
and the Roots of the Eurozone Crisis

Alejandro Reuss

Part 2: The Rise of the Third Way Read more »

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the regulars

editors’ note Liberty in a Time of Crisis
the short run
Active Culture Funding Black Futures
Making Sense How Growth Can Be Green
Comment Brexit: Reykjavik-on-Thames, Redux?
in review Arlie Hothschild, Strangers in Their Own Land
ask dr. dollar Stock Buybacks: Any Positive Outcome?