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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

Monthly Jobs Analysis

Jobs, Factories, and Inequalities

Monthly Jobs Report from the National Jobs for All Network

Frank Stricker Jan 5, 2026

May/June 2017

Issue 330

May/June 2017

Is Nuclear Plant Closure a Mistake?

Frank Ackerman

Dear Dr. Dollar: In what I’ve read online about decommissioning of nuclear power plants, people say it is expensive and generally a disaster in the making. Is this true? Read more »
Reform or Revolution?

Alejandro Reuss

Pt. 3 of “European Social Democracy and the Roots of the Eurozone Crisis.” Read more »
Understanding Brexit

John Weeks

A primer on the split that has now been set into motion. Read more »

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Shift to the Right in the Netheralnds

Marjolein Van Der Veen

Even though xenophobe Geert Wilders did not win, the 2017 elections were a massive defeat for the Labor Party. | Order this issue or subscribe.

Just Say “No” to Trumponomics?

An Interview with Gerald Epstein

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the regulars

editors’ note The Resistable Rise of the Far Right
the short run
up against the wall st. journal BATs in the Belfry
economy in numbers The Costs of the U.S. Global War on Terror Since 2001
in review Lisa Servon, The Unbanking of America