Doug Henwood
Contributing Editor
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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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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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EconomicsApril 30, 2014
Is Bitcoin the Future of Money?
Libertarians and leftists alike predict a world of competing digital currencies.
Doug Henwood
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CitiesApril 16, 2013
How the 1 Percent Rules
An elite nonprofit no one’s ever heard of has turned New York into a city of tall towers and tony boulevards.
Doug Henwood
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Election 2012October 17, 2012
Why Should the Left Support Obama?
I wish, just once, an endorsement of a Democratic presidential candidate would mull over some serious structural issues that are at stake.
Doug Henwood
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March 15, 2011
Remembering Robert Fitch
Fitch was a brilliant and prolific radical journalist and troublemaker.
Doug Henwood
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EconomyMarch 14, 2009
A Post-Capitalist Future is Possible
The current economic crisis probably won't be the magic intervention to usher in a new era, but there are opportunities to advance the socialist cause.
Doug Henwood
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EconomySeptember 24, 2008
Crisis of a Gilded Age
Without an energized populace, expect nothing more humane than the rescue of a failing financial system.
Doug Henwood
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EconomyJune 11, 2008
Our Gilded Age
Today's elite spend on a grand scale while pretending to be "just folks."
Doug Henwood