January/February 2017

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.

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

A string of primary victories by DSA-backed candidates and other progressives—from New York to Michigan to Florida—is giving the Democratic left new leverage while putting its ambitious economic agenda back at the center of the party’s debate.

What Trump Can and Can’t Do to Immigrants

David Bacon | January 20

Understanding how the economic system Trump and his appointees will operate in constrains immigration policy. Read more »
Trump and National Neoliberalism

Sasha Breger Bush

Trump’s ascendance means the end of globalism—but not of neoliberalism.
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Green State America

Frank Ackerman

How to keep America’s promises and protect the climate despite Trump’s climate-change denialism.
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The Global Economy Today

Arthur Macewan

How we got here and where we need to go: An introduction to our Costs of Empire project. | Order this issue or subscribe. if you would like us to email you the sources for this article.

Hopsopoly

Rob Larson

Global beer mergers reach a new level. | Order this issue or subscribe.

the regulars

editors’ note Arise!
the short run
Active Culture In Memoriam: John Maher
Making Sense Making America Irate Again
in review James K. Galbraith, Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know
ask dr. dollar How Does Subcontracting Affect Communities?

The Political Economy of Palestine

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

January/February 2017

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars