Issue 359: March/April 2022

Medicaid Kayfabe: Fake Wrestling

The features of the bill that are likely to help ordinary people were catchy and easy to understand—reduced taxes on tips and overtime pay and a higher standard deduction for the elderly on income taxes. Yet these projected revenue losses are tiny compared to those incurred by the super rich.

Corporate Taxes: Less, Less, and Less

Arthur Macewan

The experience of the last several decades has long been one of declining corporate tax rates and a declining share of federal revenue coming from corporations. | Read more »
The New Tools of the Fed

John Miller

Monetary Policy Since the Financial Crisis | Read more »
Solving the Climate Crisis
with Nuclear Energy Won’t Work

Robert Pollin | March 26

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has dramatized and intensified the dangers associated with operating nuclear power plants. | Read more »

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Confronting Neoliberalism at Last

James M. Cypher

Power vs. Policy in Gabriel Boric’s Chile | Order this issue or subscribe.
How “Big Oil” Works the System and Keeps Winning

Naomi Oreskes and Jeff Nesbit

Oil and gas interests have refined their techniques to stay a step ahead over decades. | Order this issue or subscribe.

the regulars

editors’ note Is There an Alternative?
the short run
two cents
cartoon Welfare Saves Money
making sense Credible Strike Threats
in review Anne Case and Angus Deaton, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

Not Much Change Yet

Better Wages and Working Conditions: The Workers Will Come

Medicaid Kayfabe: Fake Wrestling

Issue 359: March/April 2022

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars