February 2019 Volume 43, Issue 02

February 2019

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Viewpoint

There’s a Vanishing Resource We’re Not Talking About Jessica Stites

Why Government Spending Can’t Turn the U.S. Into Venezuela Fadhel Kaboub

There Are Limits to Government Spending, But We Haven’t Reached Them Yet Max B. Sawicky

Yes, the Federal Government Can Just Print Money Pavlina R. Tcherneva

Feature

Native Americans Take Power Stephanie Woodard

Bernie Sanders: Democrats Need to Rein In Our Out-of-Control Military Spending Bernie Sanders

Disaster Averted: How Unions Have Dodged the Blow of Janus (So Far) Heather Gies

Dispatch

This Community Built a Democratically Controlled Water System. Now They Have To Defend It. Christine MacDonald

Millennials Are Ruining Trust Funds Andrew Schwartz

After Youth Activists Storm Their Offices, 13 More House Members Agree To Support a Green New Deal Amanda Palleschi

Culture

A Tax the Rich Can’t Avoid In These Times Editors

Emigrating From the U.S. May Be the Only Way To Afford Eldercare Elizabeth Zach

Black Lives Matter. Do Elections? Frances Fox Piven

Racism After the First Black President James Thindwa

Top 10 Strangest (and Most Beautiful) Films of 2018 Michael Atkinson

Native Americans Take Power

The new wave of indigenous elected officials.

Stephanie Woodard

Bernie Sanders: Democrats Need to Rein In Our Out-of-Control Military Spending

Democrats must challenge unnecessary spending and interventions—beginning with the war in Yemen.

Bernie Sanders

Disaster Averted: How Unions Have Dodged the Blow of Janus (So Far)

Public-sector unions defied the Right’s attempt to crush them—and were transformed in the process.

Heather Gies

There’s a Vanishing Resource We’re Not Talking About

Humans are losing our cultural diversity even faster than we're destroying the planet. Yet that diversity could be key to surviving environmental extremes.

This Community Built a Democratically Controlled Water System. Now They Have To Defend It.

Across El Salvador, water rights are under threat from corrupt politicians and corporations.

Christine MacDonald

A Tax the Rich Can’t Avoid

New income is only a fraction of their fortunes—we need to target their wealth.

In These Times Editors

Emigrating From the U.S. May Be the Only Way To Afford Eldercare

A nursing home for my mother in Germany would cost less than half of what she pays in Sacramento.

Black Lives Matter. Do Elections?

Barbara Ransby profiles today’s Black freedom fighters, who are posing sophisticated new answers to old Left questions—like how to engage in electoral politics.

Frances Fox Piven

Racism After the First Black President

The GOP has become viciously racist, while Democrats follow Obama’s lead in skirting the issue.

Millennials Are Ruining Trust Funds

Through the organization Resource Generation, wealthy young people are giving away their money to advance systemic change.

Andrew Schwartz

Why Government Spending Can’t Turn the U.S. Into Venezuela

When poor countries fall prey to inflation, it’s not because they’re “too socialist.”

There Are Limits to Government Spending, But We Haven’t Reached Them Yet

Yes, the Federal Government Can Just Print Money

The U.S. government can dramatically increase spending without raising taxes.

Pavlina R. Tcherneva

Top 10 Strangest (and Most Beautiful) Films of 2018

The best films of the year explore the hollowness of contemporary Korean culture, faith in an era of climate change, the last frantic day in the life of a Hollywood director and more.

Michael Atkinson

After Youth Activists Storm Their Offices, 13 More House Members Agree To Support a Green New Deal

Thirty-five representatives now support the ambitious climate agenda, but many Democrats refuse to commit.

Amanda Palleschi

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