The lame-duck Treasury secretary seems to want to sabotage Biden’s ability to stave off the pandemic’s economic impacts.
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2019-2020
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Millionaires Taxes and other levies on the wealthy are essential—not only for fostering an equitable recovery, but also for reining in the rampant inequality of the pre-pandemic economy.
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Smart organizing during whirlwind moments seeds the ground for new waves of action in the future.
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Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.
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A conversation with directors Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera about their new film, The Infiltrators.
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History suggests that the battle over the bailout—which is set to be delivered through a once-obscure Treasury Department mechanism called the Exchange Stabilization Fund—has only just begun.
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The thousands of low-wage, hourly, and gig-work employees who are getting sent home amid the crisis need an income guarantee that goes beyond traditional unemployment insurance.
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Twenty years ago, demonstrations against the World Trade Organization opened the space for today's critics of neoliberal capitalism.
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Richard Nixon told everyone he was indifferent to protests—in fact, he was obsessed with them.
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Organizers in labor, immigrant rights, and climate movements seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.