Tax Billionaires, Save Lives: California’s Proposition 40 Is Met With a Heap of Meritless Objections

A one-time tax on the super wealthy is an important step toward greater equality.

John Miller Oct 21, 2026

How to Fund a Fairer Economy—and Reduce Inequality

How can we fund universal childcare, Medicare for All, and a green economy while reducing inequality? A new plan shows how taxing wealth and corporate profits more fairly—and cutting wasteful spending—could pay for a fairer, more prosperous economy.

Nancy Folbre Oct 15, 2026

Left Hook Economics

When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor

From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor.

Arthur MacEwan Oct 2, 2026

Issue 209: January/February 1997

features

A Business Showcases Its Segregated Staff

Barbara R. Bergmann
Workers' De-Compensation

Kimberly Patch

Benefits Evaporate for Repetitive Stress Sufferers
Competition Comes to Electricity

Roger Colton

Industry Gains; People and the Environment Lose
Judi Bari: Revolutionary Ecologist

Sharon Seidenstein
Last In, First Out

Marc Breslow

Black Men Take the Heat
South Africa Beyond Apartheid

Is Political Power Enough? An Interview with Warren Krafchik
A Progressive's (Brief) Guide to the Internet

Leslie Brokaw &Amp; Margaret S. Coleman

the regulars

lettersThe New Party Plug
the short runRonald McDonald Goes to Court
active cultureThird Party Successes
making senseA Maverick Wins the Nobel Prize / Horatio Alger, Where are You?
in reviewThe Seven Cultures of Capitalism / Lords of Poverty
ask dr. dollarWhat Is that Masked Bank?
economy in numbersWhy Have Savings Fallen? Rising Inequality Deserves the Blame