Issue 257: January/February 2005

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.

features

ABCs of AIDS Prevention

Jessica Weisberg

Even model prevention programs are hobbled by persistent gender and class inequalities.
Marriage Promotion, Reproductive Injustice, and the War Against Poor Women of Color

Sarah Olson
Dollar Anxiety

John Miller

Global economic and military muscle allows the United States to be a debtor nation without paying the consequences. But will it last?

the regulars

the short run
making sense Taxpayers subsidize Wal-Mart
letters
comment Consumer debt
economy in numbers Housing bubble

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

Issue 257: January/February 2005

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features

the regulars