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Reining In the War Economy

Sep 20, 2022

Sarah Anderson quoted in The Nation: “Schumer’s Inflation Reduction Act Includes a Smart Tax on Corporations”

Aug 5, 2022

An excise tax on stock buybacks only begins to address abuses. But it’s a step in the right direction, says Sarah Anderson in IPS’s latest CEO pay report.

More Money for the Pentagon Won’t Make Us Safe

Jul 11, 2022

Covid Is Still Disproportionately Killing Low-Income People

Apr 22, 2022

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“The Great Resignation” Is a Great Exaggeration

Apr 18, 2022

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Biden’s Billionaire Tax Is Smart Politics for the Midterms

Mar 31, 2022

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We Need a 92 Percent Tax on Pandemic Profiteers

Feb 4, 2022

Even before the Covid pandemic supercharged economic inequality, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced as a 2020 presidential candidate that “billionaires should not exist.” That was a perfectly reasonable argument from a contender to lead a country that in the...

Tax Billionaires’ Pandemic Profits

Aug 25, 2021

As Democrats begin the push to invest $3.5 trillion to combat climate change, expand Medicare, ensure child care for working families and more, the age-old question is being repeated in Congress and the media: How are you going to pay for that? … Read the full...

Ending Poverty Will Require a Movement Led by Poor People

Sep 11, 2019

Every September the US Census Bureau releases new data on the state of poverty in America. On that day, the issue receives more attention from the media than it does throughout the rest of the year. Did the poverty rate rise or fall? What do the numbers say about the...

Can a New Think Tank Put a Stop to Endless War?

Jul 29, 2019

John Quincy Adams doesn’t get a lot of respect. There are no monuments to the sixth president on the National Mall, his face adorns no paper currency, and history mainly remembers him for losing reelection to Andrew Jackson. But before Adams became president, he was...

Sorry ‘Washington Post’—Bernie Sanders Is Right About Economic Inequality

Jul 2, 2019

Bernie Sanders has, for a very long time, been complaining about economic inequality in America. He has made it a theme of his speeches, his books, his congressional service and his presidential campaigning. During last week’s second Democratic presidential debate, no...

Finally, Presidential Candidates Are Talking About Poverty

Jun 18, 2019

In August 2012, The Nation launched a blog series called #TalkPoverty to “help push the issue of poverty into the mainstream political debate.” Each week we profiled advocates, scholars, and people in poverty who asked questions of President Barack Obama and the...

How Pramila Jayapal’s Inside-Outside Strategy Is Changing the Future of Progressive Politics

Jan 24, 2019

Pramila Jayapal was speed-walking through the Longworth House office building early on January 3, aiming to visit as many of the Democratic women newly elected to the House of Representatives as possible before the end of the day. It wasn’t going to be easy, since...

Trump’s NAFTA 2.0 Is Just More of the Same

Oct 15, 2018

When President Trump announced his grand plan for a new and improved NAFTA, he seemed most proud of the new name—replacing NAFTA with the more awkward-sounding United States-Mexico Canada-Agreement (USMCA). And no wonder: Other than the name change, it’s the same old...

Common Ground: For Secure Elections and True National Security

Jul 11, 2018

Many Americans remain deeply concerned about reports of Russian interference with the 2016 election. Meanwhile, relations between the United States and Russia are at their lowest and most dangerous point in several decades. For the sake of democracy at home and true...