A massive overhaul and expansion of the wildland workforce is the best hope we have to confront the firestorm that threatens to engulf the West Coast.
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It’s time to let go of the belief that changing demographics will bring about a progressive America.
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U.S. representatives have introduced two bills that would finally end Puerto Rico’s subordinate Commonwealth status. But continued colonial rule may be the only option Congress seriously considers.
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An interview with Kate Aronoff about her new book Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—And How We Fight Back.
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Lessons from the Bessemer defeat.
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Labor lawyer Brandon Magner discusses what the PRO Act’s ABC test means for freelancers.
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An interview with Gabriel Winant on deindustrialization, the care economy, and the living legacies of the industrial workers’ movement.
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Deference to state governments has severely undermined public health efforts during the pandemic and deepened geographic inequality in the United States.
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To have any chance of implementing popular left-wing ideas, we need to restore the capacity of democratic government to serve working people.
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The PRO Act would establish a baseline for ensuring that working people can fight for and win transformative climate policies that benefit everyone.
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Politicians fear the disruptive power of a mobilized base, even when it helps them succeed.
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MMT’s account of the origin of money is a useful corrective to the stories told by orthodox economists. But a deeper history of the social construction of money opens up more radical possibilities for rethinking the monetary order.
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We’re still living with the punitive politics of family values. A broader, universal vision can break its vise grip.
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The idea that more degrees, credentials, and skills will raise the bottom of the economic floor has become an article of national faith. But educational systems can just as easily reproduce inequality as mitigate it.
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We must recognize and compensate for the intrinsic political weaknesses of taxation—and specifically progressive taxation—through the alternative fiscal strategy of economic democracy.
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Rather than bypassing the problem of power by putting our faith in MMT’s printing press, we need a strategy to rebuild the tax state and move toward economic democracy.
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A discussion on how moral panics fueled America’s right turn, with Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes.
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Biden could ease the suffering inflicted by his predecessors on migrants to the United States. But his administration is unlikely to resolve the structural injustices at the root of the immigration enforcement system.
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A string of pseudo-populist conservative movements have reverted to the same agenda of tax cuts and deregulation. Why should we expect anything different?
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Is Donald Trump a fascist? A breakdown of the long-roiling debate.
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