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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