President Trump’s economic moves risk alienating even some of his party’s core voters. Though working class voters are the cornerstone of Trump’s base, enduring concerns about the economy and ...

I have long believed that the Left’s focus permanently rotates between race, sex, and class. The activist Left drives the movement along one axis. Then, as Americans tire of those arguments, activists ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks during the Munich Security Conference in Munich on Feb. 13. (Liesa Johannssen/Reuters) Secretary of State Marco Rubio got the most attention at the Munich ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a ...

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There are thinkers throughout history who offer grand overarching explanations of economic growth. Karl Marx was an economic determinist who focused on perpetual struggle between economic classes.

For the students in the Brown University review session, concerns about grades and questions about economic concepts would be forgotten in an instant. By Jenna Russell Katherine Rosman Emily Cochrane ...

American economics departments don't teach Karl Marx or Arthur Laffer for the same reason: their economic theories were wrong. Yet Laffer's discredited ideas are now driving Indiana's tax policy. Marx ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The comment sections of TikTok’s “middle-class house tours” feature thousands of Americans arguing about what qualifies as middle ...

It’s been a rocky week for public intellectual Larry Summers. On Tuesday, the 70-year-old Harvard economics professor gave an awkward announcement to his class of college students acknowledging his ...