The U.S. Care Affordability Crisis

Cuts in government spending and deportation threats against the workforce have sent costs soaring in daycare, eldercare, and long-term medical care.

Nancy Folbre Jan 21, 2026

Left Hook Economics

How to End Wars for Oil: Stop Burning Oil Altogether

Progressives all over the world are demanding that there be “no war for oil.” We must also call for the dismantlement of the world’s fossil fuel-dominant global energy infrastructure.

Robert Pollin Jan 12, 2026

Left Hook Economics

Economists, the Trump Tariffs, and Alternatives

One should not jump from the condemnation of Trump’s tariffs by economists (and others) to an acceptance of free trade as a key to economic progress.

Arthur MacEwan Jan 8, 2026

Issue 245: January/February 2003

features

Immigrant Workers in the Crosshairs

David Bacon

Repression in the wake of September 11.
"Death Tax" Deception

Rosie Hunter and Chuck Collins

The movement to repeal the estate tax
Special Section on Education
- Class Conflict
  
  Ellen Mutari and Malaku Lakew
  
  College students are caught between paid work and coursework.
- Move Over HMOs, the EMOs Are Coming
  
  Amy Gluckman
  
  Education Management Organizations take over public schools.
The World Bank's One-Way Dialogue

Mark Engler

the regulars

the short run
active culture Dispatch from the FTAA Ministerial
comment The Thirteenth Amendment and the Right to Strike
making sense "Savage Inequalities" Revisited
letters
ask dr. dollar How has NAFTA affected trade and employment?
economy in numbers The U.S. War Machine