Making ‘Tax the Rich’ More Than a Slogan
By Max Page Taxing the rich should bring a smile to your face. It certainly brings one to mine. Here’s what passing the Fair Share Amendment in Massachusetts allowed us to do, in just the…
Economy
The Global Gag Order Shielding Corporate Tax Cheaters
By Mark Bou Mansour A US-backed global gag order preventing governments from revealing the names of multinational corporations found shifting billions into tax havens has caused countries to miss out on over US$475 billion in…
From Coast to Coast, the Public Banking Movement Grows
By Marco Rosaire Rossi After years of being considered a niche concept, relegated to a few academic articles and zealous activists, the idea of public banking is about to hit the mainstream. From coast to…
California Bans Coercive Pricing Algorithms
By Lee Hepner Popular depictions of cartels evoke secretive, dangerous—shamelessly glamorized—drug cartels. Or corporate whistleblowers being trailed, wiretapped, and threatened by anonymous thugs with chiseled jaws and tinted windows. Of course, there are the fat…
Kerala Has Abolished Extreme Poverty
By Vijay Prashad On 1 November 2025, the south-western Indian state of Kerala—home to 34 million people—was declared free from extreme poverty by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Kerala is one of the few places in…
China Cuts a Supply Chain
Antimony and the existential fragility of American military power By Shanaka Anslem Perera I. The confession hidden in plain sight Buried in paragraph 47 of the Defense Logistics Agency’s September 2025 contract announcement was a…
Where Have All the New Jobs Gone?
Commentary by John Miller The U.S. economy continues to grow, at least for now. But job creation has come to a near halt. That got the attention of Federal Reserve Board chair Jerome Powell. In…
Gigs That Work For All
California pilot program offers new blueprint for workforce development By David Weil and Pronita Gupta For over a decade, academics and progressive policymakers have been fretting about the “future of work” and the “gigification” of…
Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records
By Joseph Cox A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including American Airlines, United, and Delta, is selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring…
How Long Do “Hallucinations” Last?
The AI Bubble and the U.S. Economy By Servaas Storm OpenAI’s Altman boasted that AGI can “discover new science,” because “I think we’ve cracked reasoning in the models,” adding that “we’ve a long way to…