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Justice Samuel Alito has a financial stake in a pending Supreme Court case that could have far-reaching implications on whether states can hold federal contractors accountable for environmental damage and other corporate malfeasance within their...

Read most liberal papers’ coverage of the October 29 elections in the Netherlands and you find this sort of headline: “Far Right Beaten, Dutch Good Sense Restored.” After two bruising years in office following an...

Eric Adams prides himself on staying out late. People sometimes refer to him as the “nightlife mayor” (though, in fact, that is a real position in the city that never sleeps, currently held by Jeffrey...

Mike Bird I would put those politicians as much more of the inheritors of the wave of thinkers that came after Henry George. The American progressive movement gets a lot more varied in the early...

One of the nation’s most powerful pharmacy intermediaries is quietly charging the military’s health insurance program $484 more on average per generic drug than independent and big chain pharmacies, according to exclusive data shared with...

I’m a fourth-generation union glazier. I remember being a kid sitting around the dinner table when my dad was on strike, thanking God for the Painters union (IUPAT) even when times were hard. The history...

An eye-popping new report reveals that private military contractors are getting rich off Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act with little accountability. The budget allocates $156 billion annually to the Pentagon and other military expenditures...

Review of Building a Ruin. The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic Reform by Yakov Feygin (Harvard University Press, 2024). It is now some three and a half decades since the Soviet Union collapsed. But...

Review of Your Party: The Return of the Left, edited by Oliver Eagleton (Verso Books, 2025). The case against left populism is that it is too leader-centric. When Podemos launched in Spain it wasn’t long...

If you’re looking for successful cases of municipal socialism, Torres, a municipality in the Venezuelan state of Lara, deserves to be high on the list. From 2005 to 2016 Torres was one of the most...

When a predictive algorithm denied thousands of black applicants fair mortgage approvals in 2019, it wasn’t a glitch but a design choice — reflecting the priorities of profit-driven tech giants. In The Means of Prediction:...

In one part of a rather ambitious article in the Journal of Economic Literature’s September issue, Norwegian economists Magne Mogstad, Kjell Salvanes, and Gaute Torsvik attempt to identify the causes of the relative income equality enjoyed by...