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 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