Doug Henwood
Contributing Editor
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Working ConditionsJuly 22, 2022
The Best Economists Uber Could Buy
Why would some of the world’s leading economists overstate driver incomes?
Doug Henwood
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TechnologyDecember 28, 2021
Intelligence, Artificial and Otherwise: Our Ruling Class
With Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Doug Henwood
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Economic PolicyDecember 9, 2021
What Should the Democrats Do About Rising Inflation?
Doug Henwood argues that without raising taxes, many leftist policies will come with risks, while Lauren Melodia writes that the GOP is exaggerating inflation concerns.
Doug Henwood and Lauren Melodia
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LaborMarch 14, 2018
Here’s Why Labor Should Resist Trump’s Tariff
It will have little economic effect but will add more bellicosity to a world already overdosing on it.
Doug Henwood
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PoliticsMay 31, 2017
To Impeach or Not to Impeach? And Is That Even the Question?
Four writers debate whether Trump’s removal from office is a priority or a distraction.
Doug Henwood, Steve Phillips, Christopher D. Cook and Medea Benjamin
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DemocratsApril 11, 2016
We Asked 4 Prominent Bernie Supporters if They’d Vote for Hillary in November. Here’s What They Told Us.
Is there an argument to be made for “Bernie or Bust”?
Doug Henwood, Rania Khalek, Kathleen Geier and Joshua Holland
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TechnologySeptember 3, 2015
Age of the Unicorn: How the Fed Tried to Fix the Recession, and Created the Tech Bubble
The number of “unicorn” tech companies is increasing dramatically—but the bubble will burst eventually.
Doug Henwood
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Working ConditionsJanuary 27, 2015
What the Sharing Economy Takes
Uber and Airbnb monetize the desperation of people in the post-crisis economy while sounding generous—and evoke a fantasy of community in an atomized population.
Doug Henwood
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ElectionsNovember 24, 2014
Who’s Ready for Hillary?
Depending on whom you ask, Clinton is a triangulating pro-corporate Democrat or a heroic shatterer of glass ceilings—or both.
Kathleen Geier, Joan Walsh, Jamelle Bouie, Doug Henwood, Heather Digby Parton, Steven Teles and Richard Yeselson
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EconomicsApril 30, 2014
Is Bitcoin the Future of Money?
Libertarians and leftists alike predict a world of competing digital currencies.
Doug Henwood