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The Pandemic Revealed How Much We Hate Our Jobs. Now We Have a Chance to Reinvent Work
The workplace doesn't work. Now's our chance to reinvent it
The Empire State Building Opened During the Great Depression. Its Survival Story Holds a Lesson for Today
As office buildings grapple with how to cope after a year of working from home, the Empire State Building's history may offer some hope
America’s 1% Got Way Richer During the Pandemic. We Need a Onetime Wealth Tax to Help Rebuild the Country
The coronavirus has been nothing less than a calamity. But more than a year into the pandemic, it is distressingly clear that although the virus affects everyone, we are not all in this together. Instead, the disease highlights and worsens existing fault lines in American society, especially economic inequality. The Biden Administration recognizes the problem.…
Asia’s Economies Are Set to Rebound From COVID-19 Faster Than the U.S. or Europe—If They Can Step Up Vaccine Rollouts
But, economic success could be thwarted by the region's sluggish vaccine rollout and deadly new waves of COVID-19
The Free Market is Dead: What Will Replace It?
Big meetings in the Oval Office in the time of Covid-19 are rare, but two weeks into his presidency, President Joe Biden decided to make an exception. It was only a few days after the nation’s coronavirus case count peaked in late January, and Biden sat on a stately beige chair, double masked and flanked…
America’s Interstate Slave Trade Once Trafficked Nearly 30,000 People a Year—And Reshaped the Country’s Economy
Between the 1820s and the 1830s, the number of slaves transported across state lines increased by 85%, reaching the point where white people forced the migration of nearly thirty thousand enslaved people, on average, from one state to another every year
Spain Is Going to Trial a 4-Day Work Week. Could the Idea Go Mainstream Post-Pandemic?
What the country can learn from companies and municipalities that have tried it
Why You Should Be Wary of Claims That the Stock Market Is in a Bubble
Bubbles, bubbles everywhere. So say an increasing number of Wall Street professionals, who see the lofty prices of everything from equities to Bitcoin, new homes to the soaring value of newly public companies as clear signs that the financial system is again on the verge of a major reset similar to what happened in 2000…
The Fight for a $15 Minimum Wage Is Our Selma
After the public lynching of George Floyd last summer, his cry of “I can’t breathe” galvanized a movement for Black lives that won majority support among Americans. Floyd wasn’t the only one gasping for breath. While Americans watched a police officer choke the life out of Floyd, we also witnessed Black Americans contracting a deadly…
Amsterdam Is Embracing a Radical New Economic Theory to Help Save the Environment. Could It Also Replace Capitalism?
It’s the first time a major city has attempted to put doughnut theory into action on a local level
Unemployment Claims Are Rising as the Pandemic Surges
The economy also lost 140,000 jobs in December, hitting women of color the hardest
The Top Risks for the World in 2021
2021 opens in the middle of the greatest crisis of our lifetimes. The healthcare response to the pandemic defined 2020. The economic response to its lasting damage will define 2021.