Issue 328: January/February 2017

New York City Nurses Confront an Austerity Avalanche

Medicaid cuts are being used to push austerity in hospitals’ contract negotiations with nurses, even as some hospitals dabble in financial speculation and their CEOs rake in millions.

What Trump Can and Can’t Do to Immigrants

David Bacon | January 20

Understanding how the economic system Trump and his appointees will operate in constrains immigration policy. Read more »
Trump and National Neoliberalism

Sasha Breger Bush

Trump’s ascendance means the end of globalism—but not of neoliberalism.
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Green State America

Frank Ackerman

How to keep America’s promises and protect the climate despite Trump’s climate-change denialism.
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The Global Economy Today

Arthur Macewan

How we got here and where we need to go: An introduction to our Costs of Empire project. | Order this issue or subscribe. if you would like us to email you the sources for this article.

Hopsopoly

Rob Larson

Global beer mergers reach a new level. | Order this issue or subscribe.

the regulars

editors’ note Arise!
the short run
Active Culture In Memoriam: John Maher
Making Sense Making America Irate Again
in review James K. Galbraith, Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know
ask dr. dollar How Does Subcontracting Affect Communities?

Where Have All the New Jobs Gone?

New York City Nurses Confront an Austerity Avalanche

Taxing the Top

Issue 328: January/February 2017

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the regulars