May/June 2020

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

How Federal Reserve policies, the recession they triggered, and broader political and economic changes weakened workers’ power and helped usher in an era of extreme inequality.

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

A string of primary victories by DSA-backed candidates and other progressives—from New York to Michigan to Florida—is giving the Democratic left new leverage while putting its ambitious economic agenda back at the center of the party’s debate.

Growth, Growth, Growth: What Will Happen?

Arthur Macewan

The issues of fossil fuel-based growth, economic inequality, and firms’ externalization of pollutants will remain important issues after the COVID-19 crisis starts to fade from our daily lives. | Read more »
App Workers in the Gig Economy

Nicole Aschoff

App jobs are a testing ground for companies to see how much they can force workers, consumers, and governments to take on the costs of production. | Read more »
Guaranteed Unemployment or Guaranteed Employment?

Pavlina Tcherneva

The avalanche of job losses today and mass unemployment tomorrow are of our own making. But there is another option. | Read more »
The Most Important Economic Lesson from the COVID-19 Crisis

Yeva Nersisyan and L. Randall Wray

It’s time to ditch “pay-for” politics. | Read more »
Not Just a “Natural Disaster”

Alejandro Reuss

Part 1 of a new joint series in Labor Notes and D&S: “Coronavirus, Capitalism, and the Workers’ Movement”
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Neoliberalism as Neocolonialism

Jayati Ghosh

A contribution to our series on the history of neoliberalism, updated by the author in light of the current crisis. | Read more »

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Tracking the Fed’s Response to the Coronavirus Crisis

Esra uğurlu and Gerald Epstein

Not Just the Same Ol’, Same Ol’

the regulars

editor’s note Or Does It Explode?
the short run
cartoon Capitalism and Socialism
active culture Labor Action in the Coronavirus Crisis
in review Emily Guendelsberger, On the Clock; Darcy Lockman, All the Rage; Michael Yates, Can the Working Class Save the World?; Motihari Brigade, Power from Below

The Political Economy of Palestine

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

May/June 2020

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars