The Trump campaign has portrayed the Vice-President’s father as a Marxist. He insists he’s been caricatured.
Despite these detractors’ claims, a new polling survey commissioned by More Perfect Union and provided exclusively to the Prospect finds that the populist messaging Harris has leaned into is good politics.
Leopold’s new book offers a closer and more detailed look at how wealth extraction occurs, how workers bear the brunt of it, and how this dynamic challenges our political organizing efforts by labor unions and other progressive change organizations.
More than 100 economists including Thomas Piketty and Jayati Ghosh publish open letter ahead of country’s 19 November election
In order to test whether improving people’s lives can convince them to support Democrats, you have to, well, improve people’s lives. Deepak Bhargava, Shahrzad Shams, and Harry Hanbury, in a piece called “The Death of ‘Deliverism,’” argued otherwise.
This article draws on some ideas developed further in Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World by Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce (New Press, November 2023).
Our interactive map illustrates some ways in which institutional support for the colonization of Palestine is structurally tied to policing and systemic white supremacy here where we live, and to US imperialist projects in other countries.
Reforms are needed to ensure that inaccurate budgetary math doesn’t take precedence over maximizing long-term prosperity.
Economic models do not, and never can, fully reflect the extraordinary complexity of human markets. The point is to create useful abstractions to provide decision-makers with a sense of the budgetary and economic impacts of a given policy proposal.
Our central bank operates by and for the financial elite.
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