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Economic Policy
March 28, 2023
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Alex Shephard
Why Republicans Abandoned Their Economic Message
The GOP used to do its wonky best to make the case that it was the party of the pocketbook. But it’s all wokeness, all the time now.
June 18, 2021
Magazine
Jacob Silverman
The IRS Could Be a Force for Social Good
Republicans rigged the IRS in favor of the rich. Biden can revive the agency to serve the rest of us.
April 20, 2021
Magazine
Jacob Silverman
Cryptocurrencies Are the Next Frontier for the Surveillance State
Countries are launching digital currencies to rival Bitcoin—and opening up new ways to snoop on their citizens in the process.
March 15, 2021
Magazine
Mariana Mazzucato
Saving the Climate in a Triple Crisis
A moon shot model for the transformation of capitalism
December 28, 2020
Magazine
Alexander Zaitchik
The Urgent Case for Shrinking the Economy
Endless growth is destroying the planet. We know how to stop it.
March 20, 2019
Sam Bresnick
The Problem With Trying to Be Like China
Free-market conservatives in the U.S. seem newly fascinated by Chinese state-directed economic policy.
September 27, 2018
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Lee Drutman
Why Won’t Democrats Move Left in the Suburbs?
They could win with more progressive candidates, but the leadership insists on cautious moderation.
August 1, 2014
Danny Vinik
July Jobs Report: Slow, Steady Job Growth Continues
July 29, 2014
Sean McElwee
Here's a Quick, Smart Way Obama Could Raise Worker Wages
Make federal contractors do right by their employees
July 16, 2014
Henry Aaron
The Ultimate, Definitive Guide to the Budget Deficit
Step 1: Stop worrying about it so much
July 7, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Hillary, Here’s Your Campaign Platform
April 15, 2014
Danny Vinik
The U.S. Tax Code Drags Millions of Childless Workers Into Poverty
May 23, 1981
Michael Kinsley
The Mystery of the Free Lunch
September 24, 1945
George Soule
The British-American Difference
December 7, 1918
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Walter E. Weyl
Buffer Employment
The greater the impending unemployment the greater the necessity for a well planned system of buffer jobs.
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