The Tax Sharks Are Back
And They’re Coming for Your Home Commentary by Cory Doctorow One of my weirder and more rewarding hobbies is collecting definitions of “conservativism,” and one of the jewels of that collection comes from Corey Robin’s…
Economy
Why We’re Paying More for Less
Corporate price-fixing is driving inflation Matt Stoller In 2022, the Biden administration and the oil industry were in a brutal fight over oil prices. The president was demanding that domestic oil producers invest and drill…
Capitalism Is Bad For Your Mental Health
By Belén Fernández When I was in high school in Texas in the late 1990s, running myself ragged with academic and extracurricular activities, I began suffering from acute panic attacks. The first round lasted for…
Venezuela’s Government Delivers 4.9 Million Homes
By Andreína Chávez Alava The Venezuelan government marked the 13th anniversary of Venezuela’s Great Housing Mission (GMVV) by celebrating the 4.9 millionth home delivered to working-class families. On April 30, President Nicolás Maduro unveiled the…
Sumaq Kawsay
Alternative development rooted in the wellbeing of humans and nature By Sammi Bennett & Krystyna Swiderska Across the world, people are questioning dominant narratives of social progress based on capital accumulation and natural resource extraction….
Connecticut Baby Bonds Fight the Wealth Gap
By Lynn Parramore Consider a tale of two babies born in the same American city, Jake and Justin. Jake, born into an economically secure white family, is primed for success. His grandparents set up a…
Bail Reform: What’s at Stake
On any given day in 2020, roughly 630,000 people were locked up in local jails. The majority of them had not been convicted of a crime. After an arrest—wrongful or not—a person’s ability to leave…
Taking Media Out of the Market
By Victor Pickard It’s been a particularly brutal stretch for American journalism. Even for an industry that’s become synonymous with precarity and crisis, the recent job losses have been jolting. The Los Angeles Times announced…
It’s Time to Tax the Rich… and Their Foundations
Commentary by Lynn Murphy and Alhoor Ladha We are wrapping up yet another tumultuous year in which wars and disasters have ravaged communities across the world. These misfortunes have added to the misery of those…
Massachusetts ‘Tax the Rich’ Law Raises $1.5 Billion
For Free School Lunch and More By Julia Conley A new “millionaire’s tax” in Massachusetts was expected to generate $1 billion in revenue last year to help pay for public education, infrastructure, and early childcare…