Left Hook Economics 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
The D&S Debrief Interview: The Plutonomy and the Coming Crisis An interview with Yeva Nersisyan and L. Randall Wray D&S Admin Sep 28, 2026
Inequality and Climate Change Arthur Macewan The power of the rich is making it even harder to halt climate change than it has to be. | Read more » A Country of Mini-Millionaires? John Miller The Wall Street Journal’s rosy take on the latest Federal Reserve wealth report. | Read more » Union Democracy Stands Up Barry Eidlin Workers’ struggles will determine how the latest round of automation will affect labor. | Read more » Subscribe Order this issue Available only in the print edition: features The Heavy, Unequal Burden of Student Debt Nick French The federal student loan payment restart is inflicting needless pain on millions of Americans. Ruined Rivers Mir Aiyaz The Hidden Crisis of Unchecked Mining in Kashmir the regulars editors’ note We Have the Power—How Will We Use It? the short run cartoon “The Raises They Want Are Literally Impossible!” making sense Wealth, Inequality, and All That 50th-anniversary reprint The Sound of Popular Economics economy in numbers The Elimination of the Expanded Child Tax Credit dr. dollar Inequality and Climate Change
