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April 8, 2019
The Center-Left Wants to Pass the Baton, but What 2020 Candidate Will Take It?
The right person will understand one crucial thing that Barack Obama did not get.
Robert L. Borosage
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March 13, 2019
A European Spring Is Possible
The DiEM25 proposes immediate financial changes to end austerity and fund a green—and hopefully post-capitalist—future.
Yanis Varoufakis
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March 6, 2019
The Department of Justice Is Turning Back the Clock on Corporate Accountability
Under Trump, fines on big banks have dropped precipitously and efforts to pursue bad-acting executives have been undermined.
Dylan Tokar
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February 26, 2019
The Rich Are Still Getting Richer
Inequality is the economic great wall between those with power and those without it.
Nomi Prins
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January 11, 2019
Sherrod Brown Is the Real Deal—Could He Win It All in 2020?
What’s the Ohio senator’s greatest appeal among grassroots Democrats? Authenticity, with a long track record of defending workers and fighting Wall Street and corporate power.
William Greider
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December 21, 2018
Zimbabwe Has 5 Currencies but No Plan to Address Its Crisis
How can Zimbabwe recover from 80,000,000,000 percent inflation?
Nanjala Nyabola
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December 14, 2018
Central Banks Versus the People
World leaders remain oblivious to the long-term dangers of inequality.
Nomi Prins
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November 15, 2018
Moving Beyond the Earned-Income Tax Credit
The EITC might be the most progressive part of the tax code, but it still fails to reach the country’s neediest.
Colin McAuliffe and Sean McElwee
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November 15, 2018
Progressive Economics Are Ascendant—Among Democrats, and at the Ballot Box
It’s good politics and good policy, and should be a winning formula in 2020.
Chris Hughes
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October 18, 2018
That Trump Administration Claim That Poverty Is Low? Outright Flimflam.
It’s based on deeply flawed methodology, resulting from a study whose conclusions are arbitrary. In fact, poverty is seriously understated.
Jeff Madrick