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 233: January/February 2001

features

Serbia After Milosevic

Jeremy Scahill

Let the Neoliberal Games Begin.
Corporate Welfare for Welfare Corporations

Karyn Rotker
Hunter or Shepherds of the Sea?

Samuel Scott

Understanding the Fisheries Crisis of the Northwest Atlantic
Business and Climate Change

David L. Levy

Privatizing Enviromental Regulation?
The ABCs of "Free-Trade" Agreements

The Dollars &Amp; Sense Collective
The IMF and World Bank's Cosmetic Makeover

Sarah Anderson
Thirty Years of Chilean Socialism

Alejandro Reuss

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