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Summer 2026, No. 81
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Symposium
The Taxman Cometh
By
The Editors
1 MIN READ
Cracking Down on Pass-Throughs
By
Corey Husak
14 MIN READ
A Splendid IRS
By
Vanessa Williamson
15 MIN READ
A Progressive Consumption Tax
By
William Gale
10 MIN READ
The Tricky Politics of Revenue
By
Jared Bernstein
Andrea Louise Campbell
16 MIN READ
The Right Way to Tax the Ultra-Rich
By
Brian Galle
13 MIN READ
Why Corporations Must Pay More
By
Steve Wamhoff
Amy Hanauer
12 MIN READ
Expensing—Not Worth the Expense
By
Lily L. Batchelder
19 MIN READ
Protect—and Strengthen—the Income Tax
By
Chye-Ching Huang
David Kamin
Brandon DeBot
20 MIN READ
Taking Financialization Seriously—By Taxing It
By
Josh Bivens
14 MIN READ
Features
Families Need More Than Money
Sure, working families need more money. But they’re also crying out for something else: more time. Politicians need to listen.
By
Tara McGuinness
Elizabeth Garlow
29 MIN READ
What Real Democracy Might Look Like
Any post-MAGA renewal of democracy starts with a federal right to vote. But it hardly ends there.
By
Jefferson Cowie
26 MIN READ
Market Humanism: A New Paradigm for a New Era
Progressives have been fighting on the neoliberals’ terms. Market Humanism flips that—and provides a winning and more humane narrative. Oh—and a far more prosperous country.
By
Nick Hanauer
Eric Beinhocker
41 MIN READ
Book Reviews
Terrorism 101
What the West learned—and failed to learn—from the days when terrorism meant hijacking airplanes.
By
Jordan Michael Smith
12 MIN READ
Hope in the Heartland
Yes, it was Reagan’s America in the 1980s. But progressives made surprising strides then that are worth remembering—and reviving.
By
Harvey Kaye
11 MIN READ
When Happy Days Were Here Again
Veteran liberal journalist Robert Kuttner’s memoir recalls a time when prosperity really was shared—and reminds us how it happened.
By
Jonathan Cohn
15 MIN READ
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