President Donald Trump’s return to the White House set off a slew of “hand-wringing” about the future of the global order. While commentators theorized that Trump, along with other quasi-populists ...

Charles Peters, the founder and longtime editor of the Washington Monthly, died on Thanksgiving at the age of 96. I have a certain affinity for founding editors of small magazines with large influence ...

A friend called my attention to a piece by Dan Drezner disputing the current fashion that neo-liberalism is dead. Drezner makes several good points, and gets some important things wrong, but like most ...

“The cheerleaders for neo-liberalism work hard to normalize dominant institutions and relations of power through a vocabulary and public pedagogy that create market-driven subjects, modes of ...

In almost every borough, suburb, and city block in America, quality of life is decreasing while cost of living is increasing. A stunning 69 percent of people can’t afford new median priced housing, ...

Loren Goldner reviews "Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown" in Insurgent Notes #9. Philip Mirowski has written an important book, one well worth ...

This is indeed something that is to be welcomed and a reflection of the broader political shifts taking place in that region, ...

Davos, Switzerland - It’s a quirk of the calendar that the U.S. presidential inauguration takes place the same day as the start of the World Economic Forum here in the Swiss Alps. But it’s not just ...

Over Thanksgiving week the talk of the economically focused internet was a viral essay claiming, absurdly, that the real poverty line in America for a family of four is $140,000 a year. If you were ...