Six Takeaways From India Walton’s Historic Victory in Buffalo
Here is a data-driven look at how democratic socialist India Walton won Buffalo’s mayoral primary, and what her coalition really looks like.
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Public Housing Can Help Solve the Housing Crisis. Rhode Island Is Building It.
Rhode Island is using COVID stimulus money to develop new public housing — exactly what we need to build a just, affordable housing system.
In the Silicon Valley Bank Bailout, Federal Regulators Stiffed Low-Income Communities
Federal regulators bailed out Silicon Valley Bank after its historic collapse. But they offered no such rescue to the low-income communities to which the bank had pledged an $11 billion community benefits agreement.
The Politics of Getting a Life
Work in a capitalist society is a conflicted and contradictory phenomenon.
A For-Profit Housing System Can’t Eliminate Racial Inequality
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s book Race for Profit reveals a basic truth about homeownership in a for-profit housing system: it can never produce equitable, just outcomes and dignified housing for all.
The New Deal in the American Political Imagination
The New Deal solidified capitalist democracy in the United States. The country has swung between hints of social democracy and free market absolutism ever since.
Javier Milei Wants to Ignite a Far-Right Cultural Revolution
Newly elected Argentine president Javier Milei outlined his radical libertarian vision at Davos. During his speech, he made it clear that any opposition to his free-market utopia would be crushed by authoritarian means.
Is This the Future Liberals Want?
In a 2020 campaign against Donald Trump, a bet on Elizabeth Warren is a risky wager on its own terms. But over the next twenty years, a turn toward progressive technocracy is not a bet at all — it’s an unconditional surrender to class dealignment.
Edutopia
Education is not a design problem with a technical solution. It’s a social and political project neoliberals want to innovate away.
Intellectual Property Is Real Money
Want to reduce income inequality in the US? Dismantle its onerous system of copyrights and patents.
The Limits of Liberal Urbanism
As housing becomes more and more unaffordable, liberal mayors have jumped to recognize the crisis. At the same time, they’re fully committed to the status quo, giving carte blanche to developers at the expense of legitimately affordable housing.
Read My Lips: $2,000 Checks for All, Now
Democrats promised to provide a near-universal benefit of $2,000 checks. Billionaire-owned media is trying to convince them to ignore history and gut their proposal — a move that would be politically disastrous and worsen Americans’ already brutal suffering.
Trumponomics
What kind of economic policy could we expect from a second Trump term?
We’re All Stagnationists Now
More and more economists agree with Robert Brenner that mature capitalist economies have begun to stagnate. We should not deny this reality but rather think clearly about how it affects our political outlook.
“I Pretty Much Immediately Discovered How Bad American Health Care Was”
Journalist Libby Watson started a newsletter to document the horrors of the US's profit-driven health system. She spoke to us about the insurance industry’s windfall COVID-19 profits, Joe Biden’s phantom public option proposal, and how growing up with Britain's National Health Service made her experiences with America's grotesque system all the more enraging.
Austerity Is a Deeply Antidemocratic Project
Austerity is not bad economics. It is a century-old project to undermine democracy in crucial areas of our lives.
Actually Existing Social Democracy
A review of Thomas Geoghegan’s Were You Born On The Wrong Continent?
The Job Market Is Strong — but Not Strong Enough to Chip Away at Corporate Profits
Thanks to COVID-related developments like expanded unemployment insurance, US workers have seen wages increase. But corporate profits have grown even more — meaning labor’s share of the economic pie is still small compared to its 20th-century peak.
In Defense of “Entitlements”
Liberals fear the term “entitlements,” but that's language the Left should claim.
Inequality University
Ivy League universities fuel social inequality at the same time public colleges are cut to the bone. They deserve to be dismantled.