Skip to main content

A Good Life for the 99% Isn’t a Pipe Dream

Thomas Piketty, Lucas Chancel, Cornelia Mohren, Rowaida Moshrif, Moritz Odersky and Anmol Somanchi The Guardian
Our plan is radical – but by transforming how we live on a finite planet, nearly everyone gains. Here's how it can be done.

Tidbits-Apr 23-Reader Comments: Taxing the Rich; Trump Cabinet Departures; Is the Pope Catholic?; Lack of Democracy in UFW Gave Chavez Immunity – Letter in Response; Young Communists Grow Older; “State Ideology” of Zionism; After No Kings-What’s Next

Portside
Reader Comments: Taxing the Rich; Trump Cabinet Departures; Is the Pope Catholic?; Lack of Democracy in the UFW Gave Chavez Immunity - Letter in Response; Young Communists Grow Older; "State Ideology" of Zionism; After No Kings: What’s Next; Cartoons

Tidbits-Apr 2-Reader Comments: More War, Cuts to Social Safety Net; on the “Left” Criticism of No Kings 3; More States Taxing Ultra-Rich; Happy Farm-Workers Day; Community As Strategy: 10 Ways To Create Belonging, Power; Teaching Antifascist History

Portside
Reader Comments: More War, More Cuts to Social Safety Net; On the "Left" Criticism of No Kings 3; More States Taxing the Ultra-Rich; Happy Farm-Workers Day; Community as Strategy: 10 Ways to create belonging and power; Teaching Antifascist History...

labor

Circling Sharks

Carter Dougherty The American Prospect
Drawing of a baseball player over a computer screen with the following words:  Future Earnings, Instant Cash, No Strings Attached A look inside the athlete-finance industry, which resembles predatory lending—and worse.

Is a New “New Deal” About To Wipe Out the Old Political Order?

Thom Hartmann Hartmann Report
My grandfather (a 1917 Norwegian immigrant) frequently and proudly described himself as a socialist. When I asked him what he meant, he always pointed me to FDR, the New Deal, and his proposed Second Bill of Rights. And here we are again.

The $79 Trillion Heist

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
We’re in an affordability crisis because workers aren’t being paid at the same levels they earned in the past. Here are 7 reforms to create a broadly shared prosperity and an affordable future.
Subscribe to Income Inequality