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

January/February 2023

Issue 364

What Can We Learn from Agriculture?

Arthur Macewan

Farmers have learned to respond to market forces, for better and for worse. | Read more »
Battling Starbucks

Saurav Sarkar

How Starbucks Workers United is challenging the coffee empire—and how the empire is striking back. | Read more »
What Happened to the Flower Carriers?

Photo Essay by David Bacon

Today's flower harvesters in Lompoc, Calif. harken back to the flower carriers in Diego Rivera's paintings from the 1930s. | Read more »

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the short run
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two cents
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in review Alligators in the Arctic by Peter Dorman
economy in numbers Assaults on Social Security
dr. dollar What We Can Learn from Agriculture