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Mamdani, Affordability, and Inequality

The costs of housing, food, childcare, and transportation are one side of the affordability issue, the side where Mamdani might be able to have a direct impact.

Arthur MacEwan Nov 21, 2025

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What to Do About Bad Landlords

Reflections from a Former New York City Landlord

Polly Cleveland Nov 17, 2025

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Dirty Subsidies

Yet more handouts to fossil fuel producers come at a staggering environmental cost.

James K. Boyce Nov 13, 2025

September/October 2021

Issue 356

September/October 2021

Do People Care About Extreme Inequality?

Arthur Macewan

Dear Dr. Dollar: Extreme inequality is having negative impacts throughout society. How long can this situation last? Will public opinion ever reflect my disapproval? | Read more »
Brazil’s Ten-Year Downward Spiral

James M. Cypher and Guillermo Foladori

How and why has Brazil fallen so far, so fast? | Read more »

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Ford Drives Away

Débora Nunes

The neoliberal right oversees the deindustrialization of Brazil. | Order this issue or subscribe.
The Public Banking Alternative

Rick Girling

A New Push to Remake the American Financial System | Order this issue or subscribe.

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