Paying tribute to the late economist who, with David Card, changed America’s mind about the minimum wage.

Governor Kristi Noem isn’t the problem. The other Dakota is a make-believe state devoted to the preservation of wealth dynasties, and it should just go away.

Democrats: If you screw this up, lose my phone number, because I’m done with you.

The West Virginia senator has floated means testing as a way of cutting costs, but his plan could have inadvertent negative effects.

Surveys tracking how house cleaners, nannies, and others have been impacted by Covid-19 show a less rosy picture than official economic data.

Los Angeles wants the unhoused out of its combustible canyons. But no one ever suggests banning the rich from those same hills.

Arthur Okun was a brilliant economist, but his classic book described a world that no longer exists.

Talking heads who blame government handouts for the labor shortage are missing the point. People are sick of crap jobs at crap wages.

This year’s insane transfer-window period has illuminated the sport’s apocalyptic financial inequities.

The much-beloved author turns 80 today. Her seminal works on economic inequality remain both timeless and timely.

Workers won an important decision in a California court, but with companies like Uber and Lyft vowing to fight it, the war over Prop 22 and copycat legislation has only just begun.

It may seem like a logical—even necessary—step to boost rates, but it would undermine many important health care reforms.

The greatest player ever, much like fans of the sport, was left with no good options.

The proposal would help close the racial wealth gap by giving every child in America up to $2,000 annually in a savings account.

Affluent Southern Californians are funding a massive effort to criminalize the unhoused and defeat their few remaining political allies.

We can debate its economic harm, but its political damage to progressive governance is indisputable.

The program is providing life-saving coverage to nearly a quarter of all Americans, but it’s not sustainable.

As higher education goes broke, expensive sports teams are a luxury that colleges can’t afford.

The only sure things in life are death and taxes. Joe Biden has a plan to bring them together to benefit all Americans.

The protagonist of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s most famous musical helped build the world in which his modern-day heroes are struggling to live.