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If You Want Me to Pay My Taxes
If You Want Me to Pay My Taxes Americans tend to imagine that aversion to taxation is deeply rooted in our national political culture. Not so fast, Vanessa S. Williamson argues in her new book, The Price of Democracy. ▪ Winter 2026 Teachers, parents, and children march through downtown Los Angeles in June 1978 to protest cuts to school funding threatened by Proposition 13. (Bettmann/Getty Images) The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History by Vanessa S.
25 Plant-Based Sliders for the Fourth of July!
Sliders are perfect for your Fourth of July barbecue because they're so easy to make you can make a few different varieties! These mini burgers are all plant-based and featured on the Food Monster App! Source: Mini Black Bean Burgers With Garlic Basil Cream Sauce These Mini Black Bean Burgers With Garlic Basil Cream Sauce by Alena Grahn are packed with protein! Stack them up with avocado and greens for a healthy sandwich! Source: Jackfruit Sliders With Chipotle Cherry BBQ Sauce How cute are...
Blood biomarkers confirm subjective cognitive decline (SCD) as a distinct molecular and clinical stage within the NIA-AA framework of Alzheimer's disease
David Berron is a scientific co-founder of neotiv GmbH and owns company shares. Frank Jessen reports grant support from Roche and speaker and advisor honorarium from Abbvie, AC immune, Biogen, Eisai, Grifols, Janssen, Lilly, Novo Nordisk, Roche. Matthis Synofzik has received consultancy honoraria from Ionis, UCB, Prevail, Orphazyme, Servier, Reata, GenOrph, AviadoBio, Biohaven, Solaxa, Biogen, Zevra, and Lilly, all unrelated to the present manuscript. All other authors report no disclosures.
The GOP Attack on Free Lunch
The GOP Attack on Free Lunch In an era of retrenchment in social policy, food assistance is becoming more generous and inclusive. But Republican politicians are attempting to gut one of the most popular programs: free school lunch. ▪ June 25, 2024 As the school year draws to a close, so too—under normal circumstances—does access to free or reduced-cost meals for almost 30 million children (about 60 percent of the school-age population).
A Real Opening - Dissent Magazine
A Real Opening Neoliberal ideas and institutions are still with us, but the political order they constituted is not. ▪ Fall 2023 After a long journey through the academy and into public discourse, neoliberalism has finally been widely accepted as a description of post-1970s economic reality. But recent political developments, especially since the pandemic, have generated discussion about the possibility that something new is emerging.
Shared Terrain - Dissent Magazine
Shared Terrain The neoliberal order has been exposed as fraudulent, inefficient, and inequitable. Yet it hardly lies in the dustbin of history. ▪ Fall 2023 After a long journey through the academy and into public discourse, neoliberalism has finally been widely accepted as a description of post-1970s economic reality. But recent political developments, especially since the pandemic, have generated discussion about the possibility that something new is emerging.
A New Class Consciousness
A New Class Consciousness For all the friendly feelings toward organized labor in the United States today, a new workers’ movement remains incipient. ▪ Fall 2023 The Biden era has, in some respects, been a boon for unions. They have a friendly voice in the White House.
Saule Omarova’s Plan to Remake the Financial System
Saule Omarova’s Plan to Remake the Financial System What would it look like if we subordinated finance to the public interest? ▪ Fall 2023 When Saule Omarova—President Joe Biden’s pick for comptroller of the currency, the top bank watchdog—withdrew her nomination in December 2021, the industry rejoiced. An unholy alliance of banking lobbyists, centrist Democrats, GOP officials, and right-wing news outlets had orchestrated a nasty smear campaign against the Cornell Law School professor.
A Durable Concept
A Durable Concept Nothing has replaced neoliberalism as a better descriptor for the political-economic order we inhabit. ▪ Fall 2023 After a long journey through the academy and into public discourse, neoliberalism has finally been widely accepted as a description of post-1970s economic reality. But recent political developments, especially since the pandemic, have generated discussion about the possibility that something new is emerging.
The Struggle for Meaningful Work
The Struggle for Meaningful Work Socially necessary labor should entitle us to respect, decent pay, and safe conditions—not a duty to work relentlessly, without complaint. ▪ Fall 2023 In March 2020, most of the governors in the United States issued stay-at-home orders for all but “essential workers”—people involved in providing services necessary to support basic human needs. The public hailed essential workers as heroes and called for them to be given hazard pay.
The Coming Public Education Crisis
Subscribe Magazine Online Blog Podcasts Events Store Login About Us Donate Contact Advertise Newsletter The Coming Public Education Crisis A fiscal calamity awaits public schools once pandemic-related federal assistance ends. Justin H. Vassallo ▪ Spring 2023 Of all the social inequities that the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted in the United States, the crisis of public education is among the most intractable.
The Coming Public Education Crisis
Subscribe Magazine Online Blog Podcasts Events Store Login About Us Donate Contact Advertise Newsletter The Coming Public Education Crisis A fiscal calamity awaits public schools once pandemic-related federal assistance ends. Justin H. Vassallo ▪ Spring 2023 Of all the social inequities that the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted in the United States, the crisis of public education is among the most intractable.
Another Lost Decade?
Subscribe Magazine Online Blog Podcasts Events Store Login About Us Donate Contact Advertise Newsletter Another Lost Decade? Introducing the Spring 2021 special section, Global Economic Disorder. Mark Levinson and Julia Ott ▪ Spring 2021 Illustration by Molly Crabapple The global economy suffered an unprecedented shock during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tax Preference As White Privilege in the United States, 1921-1965
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Public Thinker: Kim Phillips-Fein on Austerity and the Fall of New York
With New York City teetering on the brink of fiscal collapse at the end of 1975, Congress passed, and President Ford signed, legislation that authorized loans to stabilize the City’s finances. The terms of these loans, Treasury Secretary William E.
“They Demolish Our Houses while We Build Theirs”
This article is excerpted from Andrew Ross’s Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel. Today the business of quarrying, cutting, fabricating, and dressing is Palestine’s largest source of employment and generator of revenue, supplying the construction industry in Israel, as well as in other Middle East countries and overseas. For decades, the hands building Israel’s houses, schools, offices, bridges, and even its separation barriers have been Palestinian.
Slaves: The Capital that Made Capitalism
Racialized chattel slaves were the capital that made capitalism. While most theories of capitalism set slavery apart, as something utterly distinct, because under slavery, workers do not labor for a wage, new historical research reveals that for centuries, a single economic system encompassed both the plantation and the factory. At the dawn of the industrial age commentators like Rev.
Words Can't Do the Work for Us | Dissent Magazine
This article is part of forum discussion on the uses and abuses of “neoliberalism,” responding to Daniel Rodgers’s essay in our Winter 2018 issue. Read the other responses—by Mike Konczal, N. D. B. Connolly, and Timothy Shenk—here. Words matter. How we use words matters especially. Daniel Rodgers believes that the academic left employs the word “neoliberalism” too much, but specifies its meaning not nearly enough. But why confuse ubiquity with error?
The YA Resistance | Public Books
With tedious regularity, cultural commentators turn up their noses at Young Adult fiction, grumbling that it allows readers who should know better to indulge in “escapism, instant gratification, and ...
Trump Syllabus 3.0 | Public Books
This course explores one of the most unanticipated events in modern political history: the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States of America. We ask three basic questions: ... This course explores one of the most unanticipated events in modern political history: the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States of America. We ask three basic questions: How did Trump win? Where (and whom) did he win? And why did he win?
Choosing Growth - Public Books
Recently, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt defended the withdrawal of the United States from the 2015 Paris Climate Accord by alleging that the agreement had placed “constraints on the economy.” Rather than regulations, Pruitt promised, it was “technology and innovation” breakthroughs in the private sector that would curb carbon emissions, create new jobs, and spur economic growth.
How Tax Policy Created the 1%
How Tax Policy Created the 1% From the 1920s to today, American tax policy has evolved to reflect one principle—the investor comes first—with disastrous implications for the rest of us.
Bean and Veggie Sliders Topped With Mango, Chili, and Garlic Dressing [Vegan]
These delicious sliders are going to slide right into the number one slot on your go-to recipe list – they're that good. The bean and vegetable patties are topped with a creamy garlic and chili sauce and some slices of fresh mango to finish off the burger.
5 Books: University Press Books That Tackle Capitalism From Every Angle
Professor Julia Ott directs the interdisciplinary Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at the New School. In the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown, a number of programs to study capitalism have emerged, from Harvard to the University of Georgia. University presses have followed suit, producing new work fundamental to understanding our current crisis. Here are five crucial contributions.
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