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No Matter How You Look at It, the Big Beautiful Bill is a Monstrosity

Here are three views of the bill's horrific distributional consequences.

John Miller Jul 7, 2025

Left Hook

What’s Different About Today’s Government Deficit and Debt?

As of today, the U.S. government’s current deficit and debt are indeed currently at unprecedented levels for peacetime—once we account for them appropriately.

Robert Pollin Jul 1, 2025

Left Hook

No Tax on Tips

Even the stand-alone No Tax on Tips Act would do far too little to better the lot of low-income workers, even tipped workers.

John Miller Jun 27, 2025

Issue 209: January/February 1997

features

A Business Showcases Its Segregated Staff

Barbara R. Bergmann
Workers' De-Compensation

Kimberly Patch

Benefits Evaporate for Repetitive Stress Sufferers
Competition Comes to Electricity

Roger Colton

Industry Gains; People and the Environment Lose
Judi Bari: Revolutionary Ecologist

Sharon Seidenstein
Last In, First Out

Marc Breslow

Black Men Take the Heat
South Africa Beyond Apartheid

Is Political Power Enough? An Interview with Warren Krafchik
A Progressive's (Brief) Guide to the Internet

Leslie Brokaw &Amp; Margaret S. Coleman

the regulars

lettersThe New Party Plug
the short runRonald McDonald Goes to Court
active cultureThird Party Successes
making senseA Maverick Wins the Nobel Prize / Horatio Alger, Where are You?
in reviewThe Seven Cultures of Capitalism / Lords of Poverty
ask dr. dollarWhat Is that Masked Bank?
economy in numbersWhy Have Savings Fallen? Rising Inequality Deserves the Blame