Trump’s Bifurcated Economy

The labor market, economic growth, and the stock market part ways in today’s ever-more unequal economy.

John Miller Jan 23, 2026

The U.S. Care Affordability Crisis

Cuts in government spending and deportation threats against the workforce have sent costs soaring in daycare, eldercare, and long-term medical care.

Nancy Folbre Jan 21, 2026

Left Hook Economics

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.

Robert Pollin Jan 12, 2026

January/February 2019

Issue 340

The Economics of Residential Rent Control

Stephen Barton

A Not-So-Simple Matter of Supply and Demand | Read more »
A Green Job Guarantee

John Miller

A federal job guarantee would alter the balance of power in the labor market in favor of workers. | Read more »
Neoliberalism Unchained

James M. Cypher

Jair Bolsonaro and the Rise of the Extreme Right in Brazil | Read more »

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars

editor’s note The Right and Resistance
the short run
making sense France’s Gilets Jaunes
in reviewThe Museum of Capitalism’s Boston Residency
economy in numbers The Unequal, and Unrepresentative, Senate
ask dr. dollar Is “MMT” an answer for the U.S.? For Greece?
45th anniversary reprints From January 1975: Work Stoppages