Bringing Billionaires to Account at the Ballot Box Bringing Billionaires to Account at the Ballot Box
Last week’s midterms were a powerful repudiation of MAGA, but the fight against oligarchy will be a longer struggle.
Nov 10, 2026 / David Futrelle
How Mona Chalabi Explains Income Inequality How Mona Chalabi Explains Income Inequality
An interview with the data journalist about how she uses numbers and design to illustrate how class weighs on the lives of Americans.
Nov 10, 2026 / Q&A / Naomi Elias
The EEOC Is Failing Workers While Hunting for Discrimination Claims From White Men The EEOC Is Failing Workers While Hunting for Discrimination Claims From White Men
Investigators are rapidly closing out claims of workplace discrimination so that they can search for the kinds of cases chair Andrea Lucas most wants to find.
Nov 10, 2026 / Bryce Covert
How Did New York Become So Unequal? How Did New York Become So Unequal?
A new history of New York examines how it went from a center of social-democratic experiment to one of neoliberal devastation.
Nov 10, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Joshua B. Freeman
Jon Ossoff Showed Democrats How to Channel Voters’ Anger About Corruption and Corporations Jon Ossoff Showed Democrats How to Channel Voters’ Anger About Corruption and Corporations
The Georgia Senator was considered the most vulnerable incument this cycle. He cruised to a commanding victory, with lots of lessons for 2028.
Nov 4, 2026 / Joan Walsh
Billionaires or Democracy Billionaires or Democracy
California is the test.
Oct 29, 2026 / John Bonifaz and Christina Livingston
What Is Money? What Is Money?
In their new book, economists Arjun Jayadev and J.W. Mason examine the peculiar role money plays in shaping human life.
Oct 29, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Trevor Jackson
Ro Khanna Is Making FDR Great Again Ro Khanna Is Making FDR Great Again
The California Democrat is renewing the Democratic Party’s vital connection to Roosevelt’s New Deal and the Economic Bill of Rights.
Oct 29, 2026 / Harvey J. Kaye and Nomiki Konst
Elon Musk’s Mortal Threat to Democracy Elon Musk’s Mortal Threat to Democracy
The world’s richest man—saying he’s “wised up” to the fiction of self-government—is leveraging his wealth to sway elections, threaten Congress, and alter the global balance of pow...
Oct 26, 2026 / David Futrelle