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Monthly Jobs Analysis

Unemployment as Policy: Federal Layoffs, AI, and Corporate Understaffing

The Jobs Report from the National Jobs for All Network

Frank Stricker Apr 13, 2026

Left Hook Economics

Overcoming Trump’s U.S. Health Care Wrecking Ball

It is critical to understand these cuts in the broader context of the already highly dysfunctional U.S. health care system.

Robert Pollin Apr 10, 2026

Left Hook Economics

Disabled People Are the Canaries in the Coal Mine

The disabled community has responded to the adversities they face by organizing for legal rights that protect their autonomy and access to public life. But these rights are increasingly under attack.

Paige Carmichael Apr 3, 2026

May/June 2017

Issue 330

May/June 2017

Is Nuclear Plant Closure a Mistake?

Frank Ackerman

Dear Dr. Dollar: In what I’ve read online about decommissioning of nuclear power plants, people say it is expensive and generally a disaster in the making. Is this true? Read more »
Reform or Revolution?

Alejandro Reuss

Pt. 3 of “European Social Democracy and the Roots of the Eurozone Crisis.” Read more »
Understanding Brexit

John Weeks

A primer on the split that has now been set into motion. Read more »

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Shift to the Right in the Netheralnds

Marjolein Van Der Veen

Even though xenophobe Geert Wilders did not win, the 2017 elections were a massive defeat for the Labor Party. | Order this issue or subscribe.

Just Say “No” to Trumponomics?

An Interview with Gerald Epstein

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the regulars

editors’ note The Resistable Rise of the Far Right
the short run
up against the wall st. journal BATs in the Belfry
economy in numbers The Costs of the U.S. Global War on Terror Since 2001
in review Lisa Servon, The Unbanking of America