Universal Benefits Make Sense. Means-Testing Doesn’t.

Universal benefits aren't merely the morally just way to carry out welfare policies. They are also the smart way to carry out welfare policies.

“We Can Use This Crisis to Reconceptualize the Economy”

Australian workers are finally being addressed in the government’s rescue packages, but the measures go nowhere near far enough. National Secretary of the United Workers’ Union Tim Kennedy argues that the crisis offers an opportunity for genuine pushback and transformation.

To Rebuild Post-Fire, Los Angeles Should Look to Singapore

Months after the fires, Los Angeles is beginning to rebuild, but current proposals don’t address the city’s long-standing housing issues. LA should emulate Singapore, which took a devastating fire as a cue to revolutionize its housing market.

Neoliberalism’s Deadly Experiment

In Michigan, privatization and free-market governance has left 100,000 people without water.

The College Wage Premium and the Super-Rich

Claims That Capitalism Is Eradicating Global Poverty Are Wildly Misleading

Boosters of the capitalist system love pointing to statistics suggesting stunning progress in eradicating global poverty. But those metrics set the bar pathetically low — and don’t account for the obscene explosion in global inequality.

Kathy Hochul’s Pause on Congestion Pricing Is Indefensible

NYC’s congestion pricing program would have reduced traffic, enhanced transit service, and benefited the most vulnerable New Yorkers. But Gov. Kathy Hochul absurdly decided to suspend the program the MTA had already invested half a billion dollars into.

The Strike That Didn’t Change New York

The Chicago teachers’ strike was a victory for workers around the country. But how do we move from homegrown resistance to a national movement that could ignite a shift in public policy?

Comparing the US and Canada Shows Just How Badly America Has Bungled the Pandemic

Canada isn’t the beacon of social democracy that many progressive Americans imagine. But when faced with the coronavirus crisis, the US’s inept political class and for-profit health system couldn't even match a country with a moderate welfare state and functional government.

While Canadians Struggle, Energy Corporations Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank

Interest rate hikes have brought Canada’s cost-of-living crisis to a fever pitch. And while workers are feeling the squeeze, energy corporations are reaping superprofits.

The Goldman Sachs Theory of Capitalism

Goldman Sachs economists are questioning the efficacy of capitalism — but for all the wrong reasons.

Trickle-down Gentrification

Luxury condo development can't solve the affordable housing crisis — only public housing can.

Private Equity Is Coming for Your Pets

Private equity is taking over animal clinics to raise prices and close down practices where workers demand better wages.

Class Brought to Life

Class, race, and gender intersect on multiple levels — we know that. The challenge is to translate this into an emancipatory project.

Canada’s Superrich Are Getting Richer — Even During the Pandemic

Canada’s self-image as a land immune to US-style extremes of wealth is increasingly divorced from reality. Canadian billionaires have quadrupled in a generation, and without a wealth tax, their share of the country’s riches will only keep growing.

FTX Convinced Poor People Their Money Was Safe in Crypto. It Wasn’t.

Many low-income people invested in the now-disgraced crypto exchange FTX. That’s because the exchange allegedly targeted poor and underbanked people and convinced them that FTX was just as safe as a regular bank.

The Socialist Case for School Integration

America’s schools are more segregated than ever. We can integrate them — but only by forcing the state to expand universal public institutions and redistribute wealth.

Canada’s Small Business Lobby Is Working to Cut Wages and Government Benefits

Claiming to stick up for the little guy, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business has consistently fought to further its anti-worker, anti–public sector agenda. The COVID-19 pandemic has made their crusade even more obscene.

The Market Is Incapable of Creating Affordable Housing

There isn’t a single place in the United States where minimum-wage workers can afford to live near their jobs. Addressing the affordability crisis will require a major rollback of market influence over the housing sector.

A Massive Purge of the Medicaid Rolls Is Coming

When the pandemic officially ends, millions of Americans will lose federal health coverage. For-profit health industry contractors are poised to massively cash in on their misery and precarity.