Class & Inequality

The Market Police

In the neoliberal project, state power is needed to enforce market relations. But because democratic politics can demand broader economic planning, the site of that power must be hidden from politics.

J. W. Mason

Class & Inequality, Literature & Culture

Left Behind by Korea’s Success

Hwang Sok-yong’s new novel sounds a warning about the pitfalls of Korean reunification.

John Feffer

Class & Inequality

Marx’s New Deal

On Marx’s two-hundredth birthday, capitalism’s ideology looks shakier than it has in a while.

Marshall Steinbaum

Class & Inequality

The Limits of Antitrust Enforcement

The problem of employer power runs much deeper than monopsony.

Brishen Rogers

Class & Inequality

Elon Musk’s Fall from Grace

The public has paid for Musk’s vision. So why is the green economy still not here?

Andrew Elrod

Class & Inequality

Who Is Watching Wall Street?

Stock buybacks are on the rise, and they are shortchanging workers and undermining our economy like never before.

Lenore Palladino

Class & Inequality

Mark Lilla and the Crisis of Liberalism

The critique of identity politics ignores the role that neoliberalism and neoconservatism have played in creating our present situation.

Samuel Moyn

Class & Inequality, Race

The Almost Inevitable Failure of Justice

The persistence of black poverty has become a permanent feature of U.S. democracy. We need an expanded political imagination to dismantle it.

Thad Williamson

Class & Inequality

Globalization Survived Populism Once Before—and It Can Again

Forget retraining and compensation programs. History offers a better way forward.

Suzanne Berger

Class & Inequality

The Gig Economy's Great Delusion

Platforms have sold themselves as substitutes for welfare, but they have actually served as substitutes for traditional work—with the state forced to pick up the slack.

Clara Hendrickson

Class & Inequality

Half a Century of Anti-tax Orthodoxy Is Wrong

Taxation is at the heart of any serious economic growth policy.

Felicia Wong

Class & Inequality, Reading Lists

Our Top Ten Reads on Inequality in 2017

From the GOP tax bill to the resurgence of neoliberal economics, there are plenty of reminders that we are living in one of the most unequal times in modern history.

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Our Top Ten Reads on Inequality in 2017

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