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 257: January/February 2005

features

ABCs of AIDS Prevention

Jessica Weisberg

Even model prevention programs are hobbled by persistent gender and class inequalities.
Marriage Promotion, Reproductive Injustice, and the War Against Poor Women of Color

Sarah Olson
Dollar Anxiety

John Miller

Global economic and military muscle allows the United States to be a debtor nation without paying the consequences. But will it last?

the regulars

the short run
making sense Taxpayers subsidize Wal-Mart
letters
comment Consumer debt
economy in numbers Housing bubble