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What to Do About Bad Landlords

Reflections from a Former New York City Landlord

Polly Cleveland Nov 17, 2025

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Dirty Subsidies

Yet more handouts to fossil fuel producers come at a staggering environmental cost.

James K. Boyce Nov 13, 2025

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Trade, Tariffs, and Soybeans

Trump has consistently claimed that exporters, those countries who are “ripping us off,” are paying the tariffs. However, the actual data tell a different story.

Bill Barclay Nov 6, 2025

January/February 2021

Issue 352

January/February 2021

Drugs and Global Capitalism

Sasha Breger Bush

The sheer size of the drug economy suggests its overwhelming centrality to the global economic system. | Read more »
The Stock Market and the Coronavirus Crisis

John Miller

Wall Street demands your money and your life. | Read more »
State and Local Austerity

Amanda Page-Hoongrajok

Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past? | Read more »

Available only in the print edition:

Covid-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism

John Bellamy Foster and Intan Suwandi

With a primer on the shock doctrine by Bryan Snyder
Book Excerpt: The Debt Delusion

John F. Weeks

Living Within Our Means and Other Fallacies

the regulars

editor’s note Against Austerity
the short run
two cents Bad Innovation
in review Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology; William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen, From Here to Equality