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November/December 2025

New York City Nurses Confront an Austerity Avalanche

Medicaid cuts are being used to push austerity in hospitals’ contract negotiations with nurses, even as some hospitals dabble in financial speculation and their CEOs rake in millions.

Nick French Oct 17, 2025

Left Hook Economics

Taxing the Top

In a world in which some people keep getting way more than they need, while others can hardly get by, Robin Hood starts to look better and better.

Nancy Folbre Oct 15, 2025

September/October 2025

Mass Deportations Drain Economic Growth

There is no tradeoff—immigration fuels the economy.

John Miller Oct 9, 2025

Issue 330: May/June 2017

Is Nuclear Plant Closure a Mistake?

Frank Ackerman

Dear Dr. Dollar: In what I’ve read online about decommissioning of nuclear power plants, people say it is expensive and generally a disaster in the making. Is this true? Read more »
Reform or Revolution?

Alejandro Reuss

Pt. 3 of “European Social Democracy and the Roots of the Eurozone Crisis.” Read more »
Understanding Brexit

John Weeks

A primer on the split that has now been set into motion. Read more »

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Shift to the Right in the Netheralnds

Marjolein Van Der Veen

Even though xenophobe Geert Wilders did not win, the 2017 elections were a massive defeat for the Labor Party. | Order this issue or subscribe.

Just Say “No” to Trumponomics?

An Interview with Gerald Epstein

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the regulars

editors’ note The Resistable Rise of the Far Right
the short run
up against the wall st. journal BATs in the Belfry
economy in numbers The Costs of the U.S. Global War on Terror Since 2001
in review Lisa Servon, The Unbanking of America