Tax Billionaires, Save Lives: California’s Proposition 40 Is Met With a Heap of Meritless Objections

A one-time tax on the super wealthy is an important step toward greater equality.

John Miller Oct 21, 2026

How to Fund a Fairer Economy—and Reduce Inequality

How can we fund universal childcare, Medicare for All, and a green economy while reducing inequality? A new plan shows how taxing wealth and corporate profits more fairly—and cutting wasteful spending—could pay for a fairer, more prosperous economy.

Nancy Folbre Oct 15, 2026

Left Hook Economics

When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor

From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor.

Arthur MacEwan Oct 2, 2026

September/October 2020

Issue 350

How Green Is Joe Biden’s Green New Deal?

John Miller

Sorting out the good and the bad in the Democratic candidate’s climate-change policies. | Read more »
The Dangers of Private Debt

Julian Jacobs

High levels of household and corporate debt in the U.S. are making inequality worse and could make the recession deeper. | Read more »
Coronavirus, Capitalism,
and the Workers’ Movement

Alejandro Reuss

Part 3: How Inequality Kills, and How to Fight It in the Era of Covid-19 | Read more »

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“Hero Pay” and Covid-19

David Mcclough

Missing from mainstream economists’ toolkit for understanding wages: a power analysis.

the regulars

editors’ note Cliffs, Seesaws, and Leaps
the short run
cartoon “The Post Office Is Dying!”
active culture NBA Wildcat Strike for Racial Justice
in review Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The Triumph of Injustice