Here’s the Progressive Biden Should Pick to Run America’s Consumer Watchdog Here’s the Progressive Biden Should Pick to Run America’s Consumer Watchdog
President-elect Joe Biden should start rebuilding the CFPB—and thereby gain a powerful weapon in the fight against this economic downturn.
Dec 22, 2020 / no-paywall / Katrina vanden Heuvel
It’s Not Just Students Drowning in Debt. Colleges Are Too! It’s Not Just Students Drowning in Debt. Colleges Are Too!
When universities have to borrow just to keep the doors open, bankers and rating agencies call the shots.
Nov 20, 2020 / Feature / Eleni Schirmer
It’s Time for Public Banking in New York City It’s Time for Public Banking in New York City
We need a banking institution that will do what Wall Street won’t: invest the public’s money to advance social justice.
Nov 18, 2020 / Bob Master and Mark Levine
Trump’s Taxing History Trump’s Taxing History
A president in debt, and America pays.
Oct 8, 2020 / OppArt / J.T. Williamson
31 Days Until the Election 31 Days Until the Election
Vanity UnFair: Trump dismantles democracy.
Oct 3, 2020 / OppArt / Mark Bryan
How Federal Housing Programs Failed Black America How Federal Housing Programs Failed Black America
In Race for Profit, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor shows how even those housing policies that sought to create more Black homeowners were stymied by racism and a determination to shr...
Aug 25, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Marcia Chatelain
Letters From the August 10/17, 2020, Issue Letters From the August 10/17, 2020, Issue
Demilitarize the police… The case for public banks… Wrestlemania… A perverse legacy… Spinning their wheels…
Jul 28, 2020 / Letters / Our Readers