Full employment is an important goal, but there are other ways to achieve it.

Norway stands above everyone else in its level of state ownership.

Frantically googling a rebuttal is never a good idea.

Singapore's state is very fond of owning the means of production.

The libertarian love-hate relationship with folk morality.

Cost-sharing requires the sick to lead worse lives.

The single payer movement is progressing nicely.

One in five poor adults had a serious disability in 2016.

Liberal advocates are overcomplicating a fairly simple "problem."

The US middle class is tiny compared to the Nordic countries.

It is not just single mothers that get penalized by the US system.

Moving punishments around does not make them disappear.

Medicare for all is the best way to achieve Slavitt's health policy goals.

Young families are worse off than they were 20 years ago.

The Shapiro-Biggs plan goes against the whole purpose of family benefits.

Real estate investment trusts make it easy to socialize home ownership.

Norway is by far the most socialist country in the developed world.

Small business employees get paid less and have fewer protections.

A response to Daniel Zamora's UBI piece in Jacobin Magazine.

The Republican tax bill is bad. But so is the SALT deduction it curtailed.