September/October 2020

How to End Wars for Oil: Stop Burning Oil Altogether

Progressives all over the world are demanding that there be “no war for oil.” We must also call for the dismantlement of the world’s fossil fuel-dominant global energy infrastructure.

How Green Is Joe Biden’s Green New Deal?

John Miller

Sorting out the good and the bad in the Democratic candidate’s climate-change policies. | Read more »
The Dangers of Private Debt

Julian Jacobs

High levels of household and corporate debt in the U.S. are making inequality worse and could make the recession deeper. | Read more »
Coronavirus, Capitalism,
and the Workers’ Movement

Alejandro Reuss

Part 3: How Inequality Kills, and How to Fight It in the Era of Covid-19 | Read more »

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“Hero Pay” and Covid-19

David Mcclough

Missing from mainstream economists’ toolkit for understanding wages: a power analysis.

the regulars

editors’ note Cliffs, Seesaws, and Leaps
the short run
cartoon “The Post Office Is Dying!”
active culture NBA Wildcat Strike for Racial Justice
in review Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The Triumph of Injustice

How to End Wars for Oil: Stop Burning Oil Altogether

Economists, the Trump Tariffs, and Alternatives

Jobs, Factories, and Inequalities

September/October 2020

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the regulars