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What’s Different About Today’s Government Deficit and Debt?

As of today, the U.S. government’s current deficit and debt are indeed currently at unprecedented levels for peacetime—once we account for them appropriately.

Robert Pollin Jul 1, 2025

Left Hook

No Tax on Tips

Even the stand-alone No Tax on Tips Act would do far too little to better the lot of low-income workers, even tipped workers.

John Miller Jun 27, 2025

Left Hook

The Stealthy Strategy to Strangle Medicaid

Republicans want to make it even harder for low-income people to get health care.

Nancy Folbre Jun 25, 2025

Issue 327: November/December 2016

Prospects for the Spanish Left

William Saas, Jorge Amar, David Glotzer,
and Scott Ferguson

What answer does Podemos have for austerity? Read more »
Nativism: As American as (Rotten) Apple Pie

Gerald Friedman

Trumpism is part of a long history of anti-immigrant sentiment, from Benjamin Franklin to the Know Nothings of the 1840s and the KKK of the 1920s. Read more »
Taxing the Wealthy and the Art of Sophistry

John Miller

Comparing the Clinton and Trump Tax Plans Read more »
European Social Democracy
and the Roots of the Eurozone Crisis

Alejandro Reuss

Part 2: The Rise of the Third Way Read more »

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