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  • Tax Rates, Again
    March 2, 2021
    | Ruby Walsh

    President Biden campaigned on sweeping policy plans; aiming to boost the economy, he pledged to revitalize America’s decaying infrastructure, build an equitable clean energy future, and create millions of well-paid jobs

  • Health & Science
    Unsanitized: Vaccine Development Should Trigger Transformation of Monopoly Patent System
    December 11, 2020
    | David Dayen

    For the long-run threat to innovation, considering that companies used public money to develop the vaccine, and it worked in record time, the only thing that should be questioned is the current patent-based system. Innovation seemed to work fine with what amounts to a public process.

  • Letters From an American
    The Republican Narrative
    July 27, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    No New Deal in sight
  • Democracy & Government
    Populist Plutocracy and the Future of America
    December 18, 2017
    | Nouriel Roubini
    Trump has consistently sold out the blue-collar, socially conservative whites who brought him to power, while pursuing policies to enrich his fellow plutocrats. What might he do to keep the "base" on his side?
  • Inequality
    The Most Ridiculously Unfair Tax Plan
    November 29, 2017
    | Sarah Jaffe
    And the grass-roots movement that wants to beat it back.
  • Democracy & Government
    How Trump Will Betray His Base
    November 28, 2017
    | Rajan Menon
    When it comes to the working class Trump claims to care deeply about, his deeds don’t go beyond symbolism.
  • Justice
    When Communities Say Poverty Shouldn't Keep People in Jail
    November 28, 2017
    | Amy Roe
    Five out of six people behind bars awaiting trial are there simply because they can’t afford bail. Community bail funds offer a solution.
  • Democracy & Government
    Déjà Voodoo ... Economics
    November 27, 2017
    | Joseph E. Stiglitz
    Republicans’ proposed tax reform is a bigger gift to corporations and the ultra-rich than most had anticipated.
  • Economy & Work
    Patriotism, Taxes and Trump
    November 15, 2017
    | Robert Reich
    The wealthy have a duty to this country to take on a fair share of the burden to keep it going. It's Trump and congressional Republicans' duty to make them.
  • Economy & Work
    What the GOP Tax Plan Says About American Democracy
    November 6, 2017
    | Zach Carter
    Your boss, not you.


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