The Political Economy of Obama/Trump
By Richard D. Wolff, US capitalism is again careening down blind alleys. Earlier it had crashed into the Great Depressi
New Book: Trump in the White House – Tragedy and Farce
by John Bellamy Foster with a foreword by Robert W. McChesney. From Monthly Review Press: Remember that metaphor about
Why the United States Is Falling Apart
By Doug Henwood, If I were a debased purveyor of clickbait, I’d call this “Everything that’s wrong with America in two ch
Steven Pressman on the Struggling US Middle Class
Steven Pressman, professor of economics at Colorado State University, delves into what defines the middle class and h
New book: American Tianxia – Chinese Money, American Power and the End of History
By Salvatore Babones. From Policy Press: After a meteoric rise, China’s once inexorable growth has come to a scr
New Book: Radicals in the Barrio – Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class
by Justin Akers Chacón From Haymarket Books: Aground-breaking history of the radical political movements that devel
New Book: The Neoliberal Agenda and the Student Debt Crisis in U.S. Higher Education
Edited by Nicholas D. Hartlep, Lucille L.T. Eckrich, Brandon O. Hensley From Routledge: Capturing the voices of Ameri
A New Dangerous Stage of the Colonial Plunder of Puerto Rico by U.S. Imperialism
By Héctor Reyes, Puerto Rico has been a U.S. colony since 1898. Arguably, the two most exacting moments for the Puerto Ri
The New Normal: Demand, Secular Stagnation and the Vanishing Middle-Class
By Servaas Storm, The Great Financial Crisis of 2008 deeply scarred the U.S. economy, bringing nine dire years of econo
Bill Lazonick on The Rise and Fall of the American Middle Class
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUnguEjTPDY&w=560&h=315] William Lazonick, professor at U
Student Debt Bubble Diminishes Demand and Ruins Lives, Yet Officials Keep Inflating It
By Yves Smith, The Financial Times has a generally good update on the state of the student debt bubble in the US. The artic
Inequality Update: Who Gains When Income Grows?
By Pavlina R. Tcherneva Since the 1980s, economic recoveries in the United States have been delivering the vast majori
EPI: Low-wage African American workers have increased annual work hours most since 1979
by Valerie Wilson & Janelle Jones Over the last several decades, black workers have been offering more to the econo
The Rise of the American Bond-holding Class
By Sandy Brian Hager, The history of class conflict, power and inequality in the United States has always been intimate
New Book by Dale Johnson: Social Inequality, Economic Decline, and Plutocracy – An American Crisis
From Palgrave: This book aims to further an understanding of present day America by exploring counter-hegemony to the
New Book by James Young: Union Power – The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania
From Monthly Review Press: If you’re lucky enough to be employed today in the United States, there’s about a one-in-ten
New Book: Against Labor – How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism
From University of Illinois Press: Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselv
Richard Wolff: Nationalism and Scapegoating Foreigners
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Mike Davis on Trump and the White Working Class
by Mike Davis, History has been hacked. Trump’s “impossible” victories in June and November, together with the stunni
Homecoming to Nostalgia: The Inauguration of Donald J. Trump
By Cyrus Bina, “In a time of universal deceit, Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell When the entire