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

Left Hook

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 328

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Issue 328

What Trump Can and Can't Do to Immigrants

People make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under

David Bacon Jan 1, 2017

Issue 328

Trump and National Neoliberalism

Trump's ascendance means the end of globalism--but not of neoliberalism.

Sasha Breger Bush Jan 1, 2017

Issue 328

Green State America

How to Keep America's Climate Promises

Frank Ackerman Jan 1, 2017