Trump’s Bifurcated Economy

The labor market, economic growth, and the stock market part ways in today’s ever-more unequal economy.

John Miller Jan 23, 2026

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

March/April 2018

Issue 335

Modern Money

Robert Hockett

A Legal, Functional, and Historical Primer on Modern Monetary Theory Read more »
Rising Asset Bubbles Distort the Industrial Base

Marie Christine Duggan

Part 2 of a Series on Deindustrialization in Keene, N.H. Read more »
12 Rules for Spitting on the Poor

Noah Berlatsky

If the essence of neoliberalism is an ideological faith in the righteous virtue of individual choice, then self-help books are the true heirs of Milton Friedman. Read more »
Growing Together, Flying Apart

Gerald Friedman

Regional Disparities in American Politics and Economics Read more »

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the regulars

editor’s note This Is Your Economy on Finance
the short run
up against the Wall Street Journal The Stock Market and Class Conflict
ask dr. dollar What are the economic costs of Puerto Rico’s crisis?