Ethical Economics

war on women protest

Trump Escalates the War on Women Trump Escalates the War on Women

Reproductive rights are not merely a women’s health issue—they are an essential component of economic health and security as well.

May 23, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Protest outside Chase

What if People Owned the Banks, Instead of Wall Street? What if People Owned the Banks, Instead of Wall Street?

From Seattle to Santa Fe, cities are at the center of a movement to create publicly owned banks.

May 22, 2017 / Jimmy Tobias

Why Won’t More American Corporations Support Single-Payer Health Care?

Why Won’t More American Corporations Support Single-Payer Health Care? Why Won’t More American Corporations Support Single-Payer Health Care?

Warren Buffett is rare among CEOs in publicly recognizing the economic benefits of Medicare for All.

May 22, 2017 / Helaine Olen

Keith Ellison

Trump’s Budget Betrays His Supporters. Here’s One That Doesn’t. Trump’s Budget Betrays His Supporters. Here’s One That Doesn’t.

The People’s Budget would strengthen the middle class and promote economic security for all.

May 9, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Government Wouldn’t Rein In the Banks’ Predatory Practices—Until These Tellers Stepped In

The Government Wouldn’t Rein In the Banks’ Predatory Practices—Until These Tellers Stepped In The Government Wouldn’t Rein In the Banks’ Predatory Practices—Until These Tellers Stepped In

The Committee for Better Banks is organizing to change the banking industry from the inside out.

May 8, 2017 / Feature / Jimmy Tobias

Economic Democracy and the Billion-Dollar Co-op

Economic Democracy and the Billion-Dollar Co-op Economic Democracy and the Billion-Dollar Co-op

Is our energy grid a sleeping giant of collective ownership?

May 8, 2017 / Feature / Nathan Schneider

Trump campaign yard sign

Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs

Racism, fascism, and working-class Americans.

May 8, 2017 / Feature / Jesse A. Myerson

Asking for a Friend: I Have a Fancy Law Degree, but No One Will Hire Me to Do Good!

Asking for a Friend: I Have a Fancy Law Degree, but No One Will Hire Me to Do Good! Asking for a Friend: I Have a Fancy Law Degree, but No One Will Hire Me to Do Good!

And another reader loves a prickly communist.

May 5, 2017 / Liza Featherstone

What Will Kill Neoliberalism?

What Will Kill Neoliberalism? What Will Kill Neoliberalism?

A roundtable on its fate.

May 4, 2017 / Feature / Joelle Gamble, Paul Mason, Bryce Covert, William Darity Jr., and Peter Barnes

Chokwe Antar Lumumba

Jackson, Mississippi, Just Nominated Radical Activist Chokwe Antar Lumumba to Be the Next Mayor Jackson, Mississippi, Just Nominated Radical Activist Chokwe Antar Lumumba to Be the Next Mayor

A fresh model for economic and social-justice politics is emerging in the South.

May 3, 2017 / John Nichols

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