Zimbabwe Has 5 Currencies but No Plan to Address Its Crisis Zimbabwe Has 5 Currencies but No Plan to Address Its Crisis
How can Zimbabwe recover from 80,000,000,000 percent inflation?
Dec 21, 2018 / Nanjala Nyabola
Why the Time Has Come for a Green New Deal Why the Time Has Come for a Green New Deal
It’s smart politics and smart policy—and it’s enormously popular with the public.
Dec 18, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Central Banks Versus the People Central Banks Versus the People
World leaders remain oblivious to the long-term dangers of inequality.
Dec 14, 2018 / Nomi Prins
The Yellow Vest Revolt The Yellow Vest Revolt
The French uprising was never just about a fuel tax.
Dec 13, 2018 / Cole Stangler
Yanis Varoufakis’s Internationalist Odyssey Yanis Varoufakis’s Internationalist Odyssey
The former Greek finance minister is on a quest to unite the global left.
Dec 13, 2018 / Feature / Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
The Bad History—and Bad Politics—of Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge’s ‘Capitalism in America’ The Bad History—and Bad Politics—of Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge’s ‘Capitalism in America’
Although the long sweep of American economic history is the ostensible subject of Capitalism in America, it tell us more about Alan Greenspan than about the history of capitalism.
Dec 12, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
The Anger of the ‘Gilets Jaunes’ The Anger of the ‘Gilets Jaunes’
France’s unfair taxes have driven the Yellow Vest protest movement.
Dec 11, 2018 / Alexis Spire
The Ideas Primary The Ideas Primary
US presidential contests may seem never-ending, but if the debate is about policy—instead of personality—is that such a bad thing?
Dec 10, 2018 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage
Is Britain In Control Yet? Is Britain In Control Yet?
What Brexiteers misunderstand about national sovereignty.
Dec 10, 2018 / Kojo Koram
The Best Strategy for the House Dems? Fight for Major Reforms. The Best Strategy for the House Dems? Fight for Major Reforms.
Sure, the Senate will block them. But pushing things like a Green New Deal and Medicare for All will energize grassroots activists and supercharge the coming presidential primary.
Dec 6, 2018 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage