Ned Resnikoff, Brian Callaci and Sandeep Vaheesan Winter 2025 Construction at a multifamily housing development in Los Angeles (Mario Tama/Getty Images) After decades of relative stagnation, American ...

Then in 2007 and 2008, it looked like it all might come tumbling down. The collapse of the subprime mortgage market in the United States reverberated through global financial institutions, then ...

The Decline of Traditional Commodities Economics since Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo has focused on the production of standardized commodities, available from multiple suppliers, that are ...

Nicole Fabricant December 23, 2019 Luis Fernando Camacho in La Paz on November 10 (Javier Mamani/Getty Images) Since Bolivian President Evo Morales was ousted in a right-wing coup in November 2019, ...

Alyssa Battistoni: Your 2020 book Resource Radicals describes the dilemmas that have arisen around extractive industries in Ecuador—specifically, between left movements that see oil and other natural ...

Benjamin Ross and Joseph Cortright October 10, 2024 Traffic on I-395 in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) In 1996, the state highway agencies of Kentucky and Indiana set out to build a new ...

By some measure, the Court’s preoccupation with reining in the authority of the federal government in favor of that of states caused even more harm in NFIB v. Sebelius than it did in Shelby County.

Leo Casey Spring 2023 Mathematics teacher Robert Jong at a Los Angeles Unified School District workers and supporters picket on the first day of a strike over a new contract on March 21, 2023. (Mario ...

Mark Levinson is Chief Economist of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the book review editor at Dissent. Stephanie Kelton is a professor of economics and public policy at Stony ...

Joseph A. McCartin April 1, 2025 Federal workers gather for a rally outside the U.S. Capitol hosted by the American Federation of Government Employees on February 11, 2025. (Kent Nishimura/Getty ...

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In their rhetoric, officials have tried to justify force and repression by distinguishing between good and bad forms of protest. In practice, even the most orthodox channels of democratic dissent have ...