September/October 2020

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

How Federal Reserve policies, the recession they triggered, and broader political and economic changes weakened workers’ power and helped usher in an era of extreme inequality.

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

A string of primary victories by DSA-backed candidates and other progressives—from New York to Michigan to Florida—is giving the Democratic left new leverage while putting its ambitious economic agenda back at the center of the party’s debate.

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

The Political Economy of Palestine

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

September/October 2020

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars