Economic Justice

The Question Looming Over COP29: Who’s Rich Enough To Pay for Climate Change?

The world’s governments have come to the United Nations’ climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, deadlocked on one ugly question. It has been debated for years, but now they need...

Study: End World Bank Support for Factory Farming

Animal agriculture is one of the leading drivers of the climate crisis. According to a recent World Bank report,...

The Billion-Dollar Tumble

Kamala Harris’ devastating loss to Donald Trump was a catastrophic failure for the Democratic Party and the consultant...

The Billion-Dollar Belly Flop

Kamala Harris’s devastating loss to Donald Trump last week was a catastrophic failure for the Democratic Party and...

The Real Lesson

A political disaster such as what occurred Tuesday gains significance not simply by virtue of who won or...

The Recession Racket: Musk, Trump and the Billionaires’ Blueprint for Profit

America’s billionaires would love to have a recession, particularly a really severe one.In a recent “town hall,” billionaire Elon Musk acknowledged what 23 Nobel...

Massachusetts Leads the Charge on Taxing Millionaires

This past summer, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, signed a budget bill that guaranteed universal access to in-state community colleges. No matter age or socioeconomic background,...

Massachusetts Is Leading the Charge on Taxing Millionaires

This past summer, the Governor of Massachusetts Maura Healey signed a budget bill that guaranteed universal access to in-state community colleges. No matter age or socioeconomic background,...

The Other Sherman’s March

The U.S. Justice Department recently hauled Google into court for violating an 1890 federal law designed to forestall the unjust consolidation of economic power....

We Need To End Government-Granted Patent Monopolies

Last week I saw a somewhat shabbily dressed man in the pharmacy trying to get a COVID booster. They told him it would cost...

North Dakota’s Radical Plan To End Property Taxes

North Dakota may shake this country up in two weeks by ending one of the oldest taxes in America. Here’s the backstory and what...