Left Hook Economics The Shrinking Cushion of Unpaid Care Many feminists urge a transition toward a dual-earner/dual-carer system in which women and men alike earn money and provide unpaid care for their families and communities. But is this possible in the current economic system? Nancy Folbre & Leila Gautham Apr 17, 2026
Monthly Jobs Analysis Unemployment as Policy: Federal Layoffs, AI, and Corporate Understaffing The Jobs Report from the National Jobs for All Network Frank Stricker Apr 13, 2026
Left Hook Economics Overcoming Trump’s U.S. Health Care Wrecking Ball It is critical to understand these cuts in the broader context of the already highly dysfunctional U.S. health care system. Robert Pollin Apr 10, 2026
Privatizing Medicare John Miller Medicare Advantage increases Medicare costs and boosts private insurers’ profits. | Read more » License to Sue Sam Knight The Sordid History of Investor-State Dispute Settlement Tribunals | Read more » Forced Labor vs. Forced Idleness Tyler Bowman How profit and revenue distort prison labor, as viewed from the inside. | Read more » The U.S. Corporations Profiting from the Israeli Occupation Nick French Many U.S.-based companies are profiting from business with Israel, enabling the Israeli state’s crimes against Palestinians. | Read more » Dangerous Inflection Point Bill Barclay Is China’s growth model exhausted? | Read more » Subscribe Order this issue Available only in the print edition: features Sold to the Company Store Raymond Williams A Day in the Life of an American Slave, Circa 2024 Will Medicaid Expansion Ever Come to Mississippi? Ingrid Cruz The Medicaid coverage gap affects roughly 3.5 million adults in states that haven’t adopted Medicaid expansion. the regulars editors’ note Contradiction and Crisis the short run cartoon Goldy on Protectionism 50th-anniversary reprint Palestine’s Golden Oil economy in numbers Southern Economic Strategy Exposed dr. dollar Inequality and Violent Crime
