Here in the United States, Republicans still fully intend to cut taxes. But they’ve largely stopped campaigning on it.

The party rode a little bit of midterm luck to get back in the running, but it might have waited too long to make its case on the economy.

Housing is the single biggest item eating most Americans’ paychecks every month. It’s time Democrats made it a centerpiece of their agenda.

A strong dollar is bad for exports. But no one cares because these days our most favored export is … the dollar.

The duo talk about Tomasky’s new book, “The Middle Out: The Rise of Progressive Economics and a Return to Shared Prosperity.”

Democrats should press the case against the GOP’s radicalism even further.

For their policies to succeed, Democrats need to tie their economic ideas to the broader ideals all Americans are taught to cherish.

There’s a lot left to do, but the administration’s four big bills—Covid relief, infrastructure, CHIPs, and the Inflation Reduction Act—are a stirring refutation of trickle-down economics.

Why can’t Democrats deliver the steep tax increases on corporations and the rich that voters demand?

The simplest way to fight global warming and injustice at the same time would be for the world’s richest countries to end the vicious debt cycle that forces poor countries to exploit natural resources.

Three consecutive presidents have changed the look of the country’s bills—not to address economic issues like inflation but to project their political values.

A new report in The Wall Street Journal unintentionally sheds light on what economists, including Lawrence Summers, have long known: Higher taxes reduce spending.

Two Washington Post articles this week suggest we’re “returning” to a time of savage inequality. Returning?!

We used to think a silver lining to economic downturns was that inequality halted. But new research suggests recessions speed inequality up.

By virtually every objective measure, Democrats do better. It’s not even close. So why doesn’t America know it?

The grim first-quarter GDP number has people invoking the R-word. We’ll see. In the meantime, take that trip to Costa Rica you can’t afford.

Covid initially drove wages up, especially for working-class people. But that’s over—another illustration of capital’s dethronement of labor.

The stock market understands that the current spike in consumer prices is war-related. Why can’t Chris Cillizza?

The case for keeping public goods under democratic control

What’s the point of a Democratic Party if it isn’t going to protect the interests of working people?