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October 16, 2026
A Perfect Economic Storm
If Trump needed one more calamity less than three weeks before the election, the financial house of cards is tottering.
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October 14, 2026
What Will Everyone Do for a Living?
As AI begins to make serious inroads on jobs, it’s far from an idle question.
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October 13, 2026
Time to De-Privatize
When the Democrats take back Congress, we need an agenda to return public functions to government and reverse decades of privatization.
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October 9, 2026
Stopping Election Theft Before It Starts
A bipartisan coalition wants assurances that Mike Johnson won’t reject the election results.
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October 7, 2026
The Political Economy of Diesel
Trump is trying every possible short-term trick to cut diesel prices. None of it will work; he might as well command the tide to recede.
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October 6, 2026
Identity Crisis
Citizen access to public agencies is a basic public function. Why does government contract out the process of verifying identity to a for-profit monopoly company?
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October 5, 2026
The Red Tide Goes Out—With a Blue Splashback
Democrats are surging in Republican states but have some problems in their own strongholds.
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October 2, 2026
Happy Anniversary, EPI
Forty years of altering conventional economic assumptions with meticulous research and action
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September 30, 2026
Trump’s No Good at Dictatoring
Not for lack of trying. Trump would like to be a supreme dictator, but his demented narcissism keeps undercutting his own schemes.
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September 30, 2026
The Road to Universal Medicare
The apparent split between advocates of Medicare for All and a more incremental approach is misleading and easily remedied.
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September 29, 2026
Chuck Schumer Neuters Troy Jackson
Can the populist Maine Democratic Senate nominee take back his own campaign?
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September 28, 2026
Trump’s Pander Diplomacy
At the White House Summit, Xi played Trump for a fool. It didn’t take much.
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September 25, 2026
The Coming AI Meltdown
The whole economy has been pumped up by unsustainable investment in AI. The unwinding will not be pretty—and could be catastrophic.
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September 24, 2026
The New Union Way to Build Progressive Power
A deep canvass of union members produces an agenda that can rally working families.
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September 23, 2026
Kamala Harris for President Again?
She blew an urgently winnable race in 2024. Why do polls show her as the front-runner for 2028?
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September 21, 2026
Bonta Gives Up on the Paramount Case
Why would California AG Rob Bonta settle the Paramount–Warner Bros. lawsuit when he’s winning?
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September 18, 2026
Mark Carney Is No Hero
His trade war with Trump is a handy distraction from unpopular and neoliberal domestic Canadian policies.
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September 16, 2026
The Unbearable Lightness of Pete Hegseth
While the military is running out of missiles, the secretary of war is fixated on whether the troops are adequately toned and testosteroned.
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September 15, 2026
How Should the Federal Reserve Deal With the AI Bubble?
The turmoil in the AI industry is further complicating the Fed’s upcoming decision on interest rates.
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September 14, 2026
The Courts and American Democracy
If the Supreme Court is going to preserve free elections, it had better stop dithering.
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September 11, 2026
Germany’s Far Right, China, and Trump
Unless the West devises better economic strategies, the AfD will keep gaining ground.
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September 10, 2026
The Post-Trump Republican to Watch (and Watch Out For)
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley suggests a future lane for the GOP that is drastically different from other Republican presidential contenders.
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September 9, 2026
The Legacy of 9/11: A Surveillance Society
America now has a witches’ brew of government and corporate surveillance. None of it was necessary.
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September 8, 2026
Q&A: Preventing a Trump Election Coup
A conversation with retired federal judge Nancy Gertner
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September 4, 2026
Trump, Election Theft, and the Courts
It looks like the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, are unsympathetic to Trump’s schemes to steal the election.
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September 2, 2026
The Postal Service’s Destruction of Democracy
New details from a whistleblower provide new cause for alarm. Will the courts intervene in time?
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September 1, 2026
Paramount, CBS, Trump, and the Ellisons: The Ultimate Corruption
A new documentary, ‘Murdering 60 Minutes,’ brilliantly connects the dots.
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August 31, 2026
Trump Weaponizes the IRS Against Liberal Nonprofits
He may not succeed in stripping their tax exemptions, but the scheme could well intimidate big foundations.
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August 28, 2026
The Battle Over Mail-In Ballots
We can expect the courts to foil Trump’s scheme to have the Postal Service block mail ballots—but it will be a close call.
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August 26, 2026
How Trump Is Destroying Detroit
His takedown of the U.S. auto industry can’t be good for Republicans in Michigan either.
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