The generational warfare promoted by centrists and the Right, who have long been desperate to cut and privatize Social Security, is a fool’s solution to what ails the system. Taxing the rich is the ...

Thanks to AI, white-collar workers are discovering what blue-collar workers learned a half-century ago: they’re disposable. Last week, MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes took to X to announce that America’s ...

In a recent post I discuss six policies that spurred the Industrial Revolution in England – opening up immigration, weakening the guilds, investing in infrastructure, privatizing agricultural land, ...

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The war between Russia and Ukraine is often presented as a clear-cut narrative of imperial aggression versus national defence. In mainstream discourse, Russia is portrayed as the sole aggressor, with ...

Perhaps the biggest myth in American political life is that the wealthy don’t pay their “fair share.” And yet, class warfare isn’t merely at the center of the Democrats’ economic messaging and policy ...