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Winter 2026
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The Case Against Free College
Without an overhaul of how we understand student benefits, making college free would boost the wealth of college attendees without any egalitarian gains.
Reorganizing Labor
Only a mass movement by union members and sympathetic workers will transform organized labor into the bold agent of change it once was.
“Masters of the People”: China’s New Urban Poor
Political scientists Dorothy Solinger and Mark Frazier talk to Jeffrey Wasserstrom about China’s often overlooked urban poor, and how their conditions are—and aren’t—changing.
Who Runs the Fed?
The Federal Reserve model undermines economic well-being by concentrating power—and therefore wealth and income—in fewer and fewer hands.
Where’s the Outrage?
As historian Steve Fraser sees it, we should look toward the “long nineteenth century” for inspiration in constructing a new, lasting American resistance to capitalism.
Close Encounters
How can widespread inequality progress alongside widespread concern about its ill effects?
JPMorgan Sounds the Alarm on Inequality
When even the big banks start to worry about inequality, you know something is seriously wrong.
Booked #3: What Exactly Is Neoliberalism?
Tim Shenk spoke with political scientist Wendy Brown about her new book, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution, and the political consequences of viewing the world as an enormous marketplace.
Seattle’s Left Coast Formula
Will tech billionaires overwhelm the city’s resurgent progressive tradition?
Mapping Our Unequal States
The “suspension bridge” of top income shares (based on the work of Thomas Piketty and colleagues) is by now a familiar icon of American inequality. In this rendering, top-end inequality (measured as the share of national income going to the …
Brooklyn Tenants Revolt
The problems of Brooklyn’s gentrifying neighborhoods won’t be solved by a housing-market version of “ethical consumption.” It’s going to take collective action. And a new tenant movement is leading the way.
The Segregation Index
Percentage of black residents in Ferguson, Missouri: 67 Of black police officers: 5.7 Percentage of traffic stops targeting black residents in Ferguson: 86 Of arrests: 93 Distance in miles from Ferguson to St. Louis suburb of Ladue: 10 Rank of …
Piketty in Paris
Why don’t popular economic ideas become policy?
Injustice at the Intersection
How America’s suburbs are engineered against the walking poor
