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Fighting Climate Change in Portlandia

Not only is failure not an option, those fighting to avert cataclysmic climate change have achieved important successes worthy of celebrating.

Robin Hahnel Feb 20, 2026

March/April 2026

The Bad Romance of Extractive Industry

A Valentine's Day Post from Dollars & Sense

Zoe Sherman Feb 14, 2026

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Even the Wall Street Journal Knows!

Inequality is getting so bad even conservatives have started to acknowledge it. But that doesn't mean they'll do anything serious to make it better.

John Miller Feb 13, 2026

May/June 2019

May/June 2019

The Optimal Tax

John Miller

Mainstream economics supports a 70% top income tax rate (or higher). | Read more »
The Rocket Science of Sanitation

Abhilasha Srivastava

Understanding the plight of the Indian workers who are not considered workers. | Read more »
Why Is the Economy Doing So Well?

Arthur Macewan

First we should ask: Has the U.S. economy really been doing so well? | Read more »
Traditional Measures of Unemployment Are Missing the Mark

Mark Paul

Puzzling through why, despite low unemployment, significant wage increases remain elusive. | Read more »

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Surviving Academia and
Performing Sex Work

Jenny Heineman

A Look at Labor under Neoliberalism

Beyond the Myth and Through the Mexican Labyrinth

James M. Cypher and Mateo Crossa

Labor under the “New NAFTA,” the U.S.-Canada-Mexico Agreement |

the regulars

editor’s note Labor and Ideology
the short run
comment Shop & Stop Victory
in review James Bloodworth, Hired, and Heike Geissler, Seasonal Associate
economy in numbers State of the Unions
45th anniversary reprints From March 1984: Target—Labor’s Elite