Trump’s Midterm Rebuke and Economic Hardship

From stagnant wages and rising prices to widening inequality, the economic forces behind voters’ growing discontent reveal a deeper, decades-long problem.

John Miller Nov 13, 2026

The Political Economy of Palestine

Introducing a Collaboration between the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS) and Dollars & Sense

Jennifer C. Olmsted Nov 1, 2026

Left Hook Economics

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.

Arthur MacEwan Oct 28, 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