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No Matter How You Look at It, the Big Beautiful Bill is a Monstrosity

Here are three views of the bill's horrific distributional consequences.

John Miller Jul 7, 2025

Left Hook

What’s Different About Today’s Government Deficit and Debt?

As of today, the U.S. government’s current deficit and debt are indeed currently at unprecedented levels for peacetime—once we account for them appropriately.

Robert Pollin Jul 1, 2025

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No Tax on Tips

Even the stand-alone No Tax on Tips Act would do far too little to better the lot of low-income workers, even tipped workers.

John Miller Jun 27, 2025

Issue 317

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Issue 317

These Things Can Change

In 2013, Rosario Ventura and her husband Isidro Silva were strikers at Sakuma Brothers Farms in Burlington, Wash. In the

Photos by David Bacon Text by David Bacon & Rosario Ventura Mar 1, 2015

Issue 317

Maine Farmers and Climate Change

Reactive or Proactive?

Stephanie Welcomer, Mark Haggerty, and John Jemison Mar 1, 2015

Issue 317

Seeds of Change

Corporate Power, Grassroots Resistance, and the Battle Over the Food System

Elizabeth Fraser and Anuradha Mittal Mar 1, 2015

Issue 317

The Great Land Giveaway in Mozambique

[seealso id="1"] I introduced myself to Luis Sitoe, economic adviser to Mozambique's minister of agriculture,

Timothy A. Wise Mar 1, 2015

Issue 317

The Failure of Modern Industrial Agriculture

Americans are being subjected to an ongoing multimillion-dollar propaganda campaign designed to "increase confidence and trust in today'

John Ikerd Mar 1, 2015

Issue 317

Climate Change

What Is It? What Causes It? What Can We Do About It?

Alejandro Reuss Mar 1, 2015