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Federalism Is Killing Us
Deference to state governments has severely undermined public health efforts during the pandemic and deepened geographic inequality in the United States.
Deference to state governments has severely undermined public health efforts during the pandemic and deepened geographic inequality in the United States.
To have any chance of implementing popular left-wing ideas, we need to restore the capacity of democratic government to serve working people.
The PRO Act would establish a baseline for ensuring that working people can fight for and win transformative climate policies that benefit everyone.
Politicians fear the disruptive power of a mobilized base, even when it helps them succeed.
MMT’s account of the origin of money is a useful corrective to the stories told by orthodox economists. But a deeper history of the social construction of money opens up more radical possibilities for rethinking the monetary order.
We’re still living with the punitive politics of family values. A broader, universal vision can break its vise grip.
The idea that more degrees, credentials, and skills will raise the bottom of the economic floor has become an article of national faith. But educational systems can just as easily reproduce inequality as mitigate it.
We must recognize and compensate for the intrinsic political weaknesses of taxation—and specifically progressive taxation—through the alternative fiscal strategy of economic democracy.
Rather than bypassing the problem of power by putting our faith in MMT’s printing press, we need a strategy to rebuild the tax state and move toward economic democracy.
A discussion on how moral panics fueled America’s right turn, with Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes.
Biden could ease the suffering inflicted by his predecessors on migrants to the United States. But his administration is unlikely to resolve the structural injustices at the root of the immigration enforcement system.
A string of pseudo-populist conservative movements have reverted to the same agenda of tax cuts and deregulation. Why should we expect anything different?
Is Donald Trump a fascist? A breakdown of the long-roiling debate.
Invoking the specter of voter fraud to undermine democratic participation is a tactic as old as the United States itself.
A replicable strategy for organizing the jobless on a mass scale has yet to emerge. The future may depend on finding one.