September/October 2022

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.

SWIFT, the U.S. Dollar, and the Global Political Economy of Trade

Bill Barclay

Decoding the Messaging Network That Enables International Bank Transfers | Read more »
Inequality and Homelessness

Arthur Macewan

Why do millions of people experience housing problems? And in particular, why are hundreds of thousands of people in the United States homeless? | Read more »
Two “Bad” Tax Ideas Are Better Than One

John Miller

Why we need to tax stock buybacks and close the carried interest loophole. | Read more »
Taylor’s Digital Stopwatch

Robert Ovetz

What the U.S. labor movement can learn from European workers who are organizing against “algorithmic management.” | Read more »
Exchange on Nuclear Power and Climate Change

Leonard Rodberg and Robert Pollin

Can the climate crisis be solved with nuclear energy? Should recent events at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine give us pause? | Read more »

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Making Carbon Visible to Investors (and Us!)

Doug Orr

A new SEC regulation adds a tool for fighting climate change.

the regulars

editors’ note The Power Behind the Machines
the short run
cartoon Inflation and the Minimum Wage
in review The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells; Overheated by Kate Aronoff; Electrify by Saul Griffith; Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal by Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin
economy in numbers Unaffordable Housing

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

September/October 2022

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars