Redistribution is not enough; we need an economy that generates less inequality in the first place.
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In this excerpt from “The Case for a Maximum Wage,” author Sam Pizzigati argues that a maximum wage is possible.
An excerpt of Gary Younge’s book “Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives.”
Trump himself is not a far rightist but he has used anti-elitism to mobilize the various right wingers.
The following excerpt is from the introduction to Matthew N. Lyons’s new book, “Insurgent Supremacists.”
Naomi Klein’s “Battle for Paradise” details Puerto Ricans’ fight for ownership of their water, land and energy.
Trump is really an apotheosis of the American fantasy-industrial complex.
An excerpt of Kurt Andersen’s “Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire.”
If the change we need is almost unimaginable, we’re in an extremely dangerous situation.
An excerpt from “As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation.”