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Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

No Easy End to Prison Profiteering

The DOJ says it will stop using private prisons. The truth is more complicated.

Christopher Petrella

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Is Globalization to Blame?

The loss of jobs that accompanied globalization could have been avoided.

Dean Baker

Class & Inequality, Politics

How Not to Argue for Basic Income

When proponents deploy the logic of market competition, they undermine democracy and social equality.

Brishen Rogers

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

For the Wealthy, Citizenship at a Premium

Malta, Portugal, and Spain offer quick routes to passports for global elite willing to pay. This raises fundamental questions about the meaning and value of citizenship.

Max Holleran

Class & Inequality

The End of Work

Government has always played an outsize role in creating jobs—and still can.

Claude S. Fischer

Class & Inequality, Politics

Great Exploitations

States are stealing from orphans to pad their budgets. And it's legal.

Erik Loomis

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

Unraveling the Silicon Valley Consensus

Startups aren't the magic bullet for economic growth.

Ben Armstrong

Class & Inequality, Politics

Common Property

How did we come to view social insurance as socialist?

Elizabeth Anderson

Class & Inequality, Philosophy & Religion

Do Government Incentives Make Us Bad Citizens?

Government incentives may make us less moral, not more.

John McMahon

Class & Inequality, Politics

The Forgotten State

Local government can't fix our problems. Only big government can.

Mike Konczal

Class & Inequality, Race

From “War on Crime” to War on the Black Community

The enduring impact of President Johnson’s Crime Commission.

Elizabeth Hinton

Class & Inequality, Race

Reversal of Fortune

Cities are now playgrounds for the rich, with the poor forced into suburbs.

Claude S. Fischer

Class & Inequality, Race

What the Kerner Report Got Wrong about Policing

Bad police were not simply a symptom of racism. They were often its agents.

Daniel Geary

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