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How can one claim that the Green New Dealers actually have history on their side, given the power of the forces arrayed against them? Consider the history of abolitionists, who demanded the immediate and total abolition of slavery.

In my research as an economist studying corporate welfare, I have reviewed much evidence on the effectiveness of tax and other incentives. My conclusion: Incentives just don’t work.

A concise report will probably act as a “road map” to investigation for the Democratic House — and to further criminal investigation by other prosecutors.

Gen. Michael Flynn and then Jared Kushner pushed a scheme that required breaking US law, which forbids technology transfers that might allow nuclear proliferation.

Anne Champion writes of a woman’s rage upon realizing after a certain election “how much the world/would hate me for being a girl…/how much men could get away with."

Pollution from Cannon air force base has gone unreported for decades. Now it’s threatening the US food supply

Supporting freedom of movement isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s a political winner for the left.

An interview with Joe Brusky on arts organizing in the teachers union movement

Nationalist prime minister Viktor Orbán is facing an unprecedented revolt in Hungary against a law that will undermine workers’ rights.

A red and green upsurge is challenging capital internationally. The two books under review outline its thinking, chart its course and weigh its prospects.