The income tax is a landmark progressive innovation of the last century, and it is under attack from multiple sides.

The smartest tax doesn’t have to raise a lot of revenue to do social good. The point of a carbon tax, for example, is to ...

Veteran liberal journalist Robert Kuttner’s memoir recalls a time when prosperity really was shared—and reminds us how it ...

Yes, it was Reagan’s America in the 1980s. But progressives made surprising strides then that are worth remembering—and ...

Terrorism, he writes, “was not simply the unthinking product of a particular ideology but a tool that its users chose, often ...

For as long as the editors of this journal can remember, the broad left has been on the back foot about taxes. Barack Obama in 2012 said that “if you make less than $250,000 a year, like 98 percent of ...

Of the many social economic disparities that separate white and Black America, the wealth gap is the most profound and pervasive, and homeownership is at the root of that gap. At the local level, ...

Federal and state regulators have recently taken significant action to curb concentrated corporate power in our economy. Some notable steps include state enforcers filing new antitrust cases against ...

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) may be the most powerful source of state capacity across the 50 states, employing over 1,400 people and overseeing the electricity, natural gas, water ...

Remember the Dark Ages in America for children? Child labor? No public schools? No vaccinations? Now, right-wing politicians, Christian nationalists, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are waging a multifront ...

We are at a pivotal moment in the writing of this country’s story of democracy. In cities and towns across America, something remarkable is underway. Far from the toxicity of our national politics, ...

There is a growing belief on the left that American criminal adjudication is so grossly unjust that its institutions ought to be abolished. Under this line of thinking, police, jails, prisons, and the ...