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September 1, 2026
How to Stanch the Rising Cost of Everything
With government debt bringing higher interest rates, it’s time to get serious about taxing the rich.
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September 1, 2026
Trump’s ‘Golden Age’? Well, Yes—for Dollar Stores
Sales are up at the modern-day bargain basements, as more financially stressed Americans are compelled to shop there.
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August 27, 2026
Why Are We (and Were We) in Vietnam?
The nation that defeated the U.S. 50 years ago now has the largest trade surplus with us of any nation.
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August 25, 2026
Will the Republican Justices OK Trump’s Efforts to Winnow the Midterm Electorate?
Yesterday’s ruling doesn’t foretell where they’ll go, but their Republican bias is an established fact.
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August 24, 2026
Clone Natalie Harp!
Every insecure American deserves a Natalie.
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August 20, 2026
The Democrats’ On-Again, Off-Again Class Politics
After World War II, Dems lost touch with their New Deal roots. Now they’re coming back home.
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August 18, 2026
Democrats’ 2028 Primary Schedule: A Cold Shoulder to Their New Activist Base
For reasons both good and bad, big cities don’t figure much in the states that will kick off the presidential primaries.
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August 17, 2026
South Carolina: From Slaves to Bots
The state that was the foremost champion of unpaid human labor now fosters a new-age version of it.
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August 13, 2026
Hong Campaign Postmortem: It Wasn’t the Socialism, It Was the Woke
The right’s attacks actually don’t focus on socialism’s defining economics.
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August 11, 2026
The California Left and the Wealth Tax
The absence of left unity for the ballot measure short-circuits any progressive agenda.
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August 10, 2026
Why Have Less Than One Percent of American Socialists Joined DSA?
Socialism has not been this popular in America in at least a century, but how it’s defined, and who defines it, matters.
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August 6, 2026
El-Sayed’s Challenge: Overcoming ‘Otherness’
If the economy is the issue, he can win Michigan in November.
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August 5, 2026
A. Philip Randolph: Socialist on the March
A. Philip Randolph led Black workers and won defining civil rights victories over a career spanning 60 turbulent years.
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July 27, 2026
Zohran Mamdani’s New Kids on the Block
The politics of urban racial, class, and regime succession.
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July 23, 2026
Real-World Democratic Socialism
Zohran Mamdani’s appointments to steer New York’s economic development reflect the win-win of people-centered growth.
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July 21, 2026
When the Anti-Sharia Law Demagogs Fall Silent
Today on TAP: The Republicans who stoke anti-Muslim bigotry have nothing to say about Sharia law nations buying CNN and Warner Bros.
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July 21, 2026
A Great Economy Unless You Have to Work for a Living
The gap between investment income and work income has never been so glaring.
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July 16, 2026
Trump’s Speech Tonight Won’t Be About the Economy or Iran
It will be about what really concerns him: the 2020 election.
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July 14, 2026
Monitor Amok!
The federal court–appointed official overseeing the UAW is taking sides in the union’s upcoming presidential election.
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July 13, 2026
Can American Economics Change?
A business school professor and storied investor says it now has to prioritize the national interest. That’s a start, but nowhere near enough.
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July 9, 2026
The Un-Mysterious Case of the Socialist Surge
The solution is hiding in plain view.
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July 7, 2026
Commies EVERYWHERE!
Can you generate a red scare absent actual reds?
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July 3, 2026
Benjamin Franklin, Champion of the Wealth Tax
When public needs were great, he wrote, its claim on the ‘superfluous’ property of the rich was strong and just.
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June 30, 2026
The Court Equivocates on Whom to Deport
Birthright citizenship appears to be OK, but refugees from ‘shithole countries’ gotta go.
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June 29, 2026
A Bad Week for Billionaires
Losing New York to socialists, facing a wealth tax election in California—our oligarchs begin to suspect that Americans may not like them very much.
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June 25, 2026
Trump Day at the Supreme Court
The right-wing justices repeatedly ruled Trump’s way today—just possibly, to soften him up for an anti-Trump ruling still to come.
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June 19, 2026
Why Cities Go Socialist
Here comes a generation of DSA big-city mayors.
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June 16, 2026
AWOL in the Class War
Americans realize they’ve lost power and income to the very rich. Too many Democrats, even too many unions, have yet to go to war for them.
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June 15, 2026
Trump and Bernie Agree: Let’s Own AI!
One’s a narcissist, the other’s a socialist, but there’s room for all in this improbable coming together.
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June 11, 2026
Trump and Putin: When Delusional Idiots Go to War
Two autocrats staffed by craven yes-men assumed that Iran and Ukraine were theirs for the taking.
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