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Hospital pricing is impenetrable o consumers and regulators alike. The result: increased costs and profits, and wasteful reliance on armies of middlemen. In 2018, the Department of Health and Human [...]

In the 20th century, New York was the home of great progressives like Gov. (and later President) Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and Sen. Robert F. Wagner. In [...]

It's not just far-right Republicans who undermine democracy. A majority of voters in the Bay State favor progressive policies, but don't get them. Why not? At first glance, Massachusetts seems [...]

The first thing to appreciate about the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) is that it was born feminist. Its feminism and its militance have nourished each other. The second thing [...]

There are more economists doing useful real-world work. But the closer you get to the pinnacle of the profession, the less has changed. You can tell two stories about what [...]

Media commentators are mystified about why Joe Biden has not gotten more credit for an improved economy, with inflation down nearly to prepandemic levels and job creation setting records. The [...]

Biden's industrial policies represent a stunning ideological reversal. The harder part will be making them work. Since the late 1970s, as the U.S. lost productive capacity in industry after industry, [...]

PARIS -- The European Union faces its most severe challenges since it was formed in 1993. The near-term problems are bound up with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the fissures [...]

The government agencies of the New Deal revolution were created to check the cruelties of unregulated capitalism. They were born progressive. Their leaders were deeply committed to their goals. This [...]

The death of globalization, like the reports of his own death that Mark Twain gleefully rebutted, is much exaggerated. Global trade hit a new record of $32 trillion in 2022. [...]

Books mentioned in this review Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed [...]

What should the next trading system be? Can we restore the capacity of the U.S. to produce--and of all nations to regulate capitalism? Hyper-globalization is dead, killed by the Rice [...]

Early on in the COVID pandemic, indelible images began to appear of medical personnel wearing trash bags for protection instead of hospital scrubs. It was indicative of unprecedented nationwide shortages [...]

The article presents the discussion on contrast between mid-20th century social justice movements. Topics include self-funded and directly organized, and today's progressive infrastructure, which heavily relies on foundation grants; and role of unions, the influence of tax-exempt nonprofits, and the impact of funding shifts on grassroots mobilization.

All that we liberals cherish--socially, economically, and politically--is being undermined by toxic capitalism. What might lie beyond it, and how might we get there? All of my adult life, I've [...]

Biden's aggressive push against Chinese mercantilism has been marred by turf battles and cross-pressures. Here's what needs to be done. There has never been a threat to U.S. well-being comparable [...]

Why did social democracy collapse? Can Joe Biden point the way to a resurgent trans-Atlantic democratic left? IN THE UNITED STATES, we have a national administration whose program, though far [...]

KILL SWITCH BY ADAM JENTLESON Liveright As Republicans have increasingly become a permanent minority in America, they have resorted to ever cruder schemes to cling to power. This destruction of [...]

The Republicans are cracking up. Can Democratic unity hold? And will the Biden administration be an ally of long-term organizing? IN 2020, DESPITE DOWN-BALLOT losses, the existential need to defeat [...]

Bill Clinton was on the verge of opening the door to this caper [to allow younger workers to redirect their money] when the Lewinsky scandal intruded. House Democrats, who held [...]

Universal Family Care includes several distinct areas of support over the life course. What child care, paid family and medical leave, and long-term care for the elderly and people with [...]

U.S.-China relations are sour, with President Xi Jinping escalating military threats against Taiwan, walling off basic economic data on the Chinese economy, and doubling down on predatory development strategies. China [...]

LARRY SUMMERS'S public career has been marked by a carnival of policy debacles, punctuated by his brief, accident-prone tenure as president of Harvard. Yet, at 65, he is once again [...]

WARREN BUFFETT FAMOUSLY SAID YOU ONLY LEARN who is swimming naked when the tide goes out. It is now low tide for America's hyperprivatized economy, and the receding waves have [...]

The history of the modern democratic state can be understood as a story of shifting authority and lawmaking, first from private potentates to sovereign monarchs, and then to publicly accountable [...]

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. --KONRAD ADENAUER Vladimir Putin is at least as serious a menace to the United States and Western democracy [...]

Will this kind of business and consumer pressure make any difference? The closest analogy is North Carolina's now-repealed bathroom law. A tally by the Associated Press in 2017, a year [...]

TIME FOR SOCIALISM Dispatches From a World on Fire, 2016-2021By Thomas Piketty The French economist Thomas Piketty came to prominence with his 2014 book, ''Capital in the Twenty-First Century.'' The [...]

Representative Richard Neal, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, is the poster child for everything that's wrong about corporate Democrats. His newly announced primary challenger in Massachusetts's [...]

The invisible hand is more like a thumb on the scale for the world's elites. That's why market fundamentalism has been unmasked as bogus economics but keeps winning politically. Since [...]

Ever since China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the trade imbalance between the United States and China has become ever more lopsided. In 2001, the deficit [...]

AMERICA NEEDS A RECONSTRUCTION strategy that goes well beyond emergency relief measures. This is a moment for a broad public initiative that links modernization of infrastructure, reclamation of domestic industry, [...]

In June of 2008, when it was clear that Barack Obama would become the Democratic nominee, he held a press conference to introduce his campaign economic team. At that moment, [...]

American presidents routinely encounter crises they didn't anticipate. Barack Obama hoped to pull back from foreign-policy adventures and heal America's racial divides; he ended up getting bogged down in the [...]

The Tax Act sums it all up--grotesque favoritism for the rich and a corrupt legislative process. And it's already backfiring. This is the first time in nearly 30 years of [...]

Navigating the digital transition is a huge challenge for newspapers. Absentee ownership by private equity predators makes it all but impossible. There is a standard story about the death of [...]

'We might rescue democracy only to be back to the right-wing corporate rule that left working people disgusted with democracy in the first place.' --Journalist Robert Kuttner, on the prospect [...]

THE UPSWINGHow America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It AgainBy Robert D. Putnam with Shaylyn Romney Garrett In this good-hearted and sweeping book, the political [...]

In August, when Stephen Bannon called me out of the blue, I came away from that bizarre conversation impressed with the coherence of his grand strategy, and relieved that Donald [...]

Are big corporations among the firewalls protecting the Republic from Donald Trump? It would be comforting to think so. Silicon Valley has risen up against Trump's anti-Muslim attacks. More than [...]

When it comes to grasping the dynamics of globalization and the backlash against it, the media depiction of Donald Trump's tariff wars revealed that the trade mainstream is as crackpot [...]

STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND: ANGER AND MOURNING ON THE AMERICAN RIGHT BY ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHIL New Press HILLBILLY ELEGY: A MEMOIR OF A FAMILY AND CULTURE IN CRISIS BY [...]

She is the other woman of American politics--an unabashed progressive with a compelling life story, a woman who made it from hardscrabble roots on her own, not in partnership with [...]