In almost every borough, suburb, and city block in America, quality of life is decreasing while cost of living is increasing. A stunning 69 percent of people can’t afford new median priced housing, ...

Remember the days of Occupy Wall Street? In September of 2011, activists descended on the Wall Street area of Manhattan to protest rising economic inequality and the controlling role that money was ...

Our federal government will either work for us or against us. It won’t be neutral. Now is not the time for hand wringing and worrying what the next administration will or will not do: It’s the time to ...

“Neoliberalism” has been a hot topic for a few decades, but by now the word is sloppily used often enough that many claim that the word has become meaningless. However, it doesn’t work that way. The ...

Here I begin discussion of theologian Adam Kotsko’s 2018 book Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital (Stanford University Press). Earlier I posted some remarks about the ...

Neoliberalism is a myth. The concept suggests that starting in the 1970s Western economies have been shaped by free-market principles, the state has retreated, and markets have reigned supreme. And ...

So, neoliberalism, probably one would be a, you know, going from, let’s say, pensions to 401 (k)s, you know. You get to decide your risks, you know, going from a real sort of state where poverty, you ...

Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, 1992. (Paul Richards / AFP via Getty Images) During the 1994-95 academic year, I had a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, located ...

Neoliberalism is a sprawling, contentious, difficult economic and political concept that can be hard to pin down because it shapes our lives in so many ways. Sometimes it can seem to describe ...

Washington Bought Itself Another 100 Days. It Didn’t Buy a Fiscal Plan A Series of Unforced Errors: The Next Municipal Budget Crises From Munitions Shortage to Ebola, Dodd–Frank Minerals Measure Makes ...

The Democratic Party is having an internal battle over the “small” and “large” infrastructure bills, but what’s really at stake is the future of neoliberalism within the party. The smaller “bipartisan ...

It is rarely contested that a reciprocal relationship exists between White power and American neoliberal culture. As the public conversation around racial capitalism and the threat of White Christian ...