Despite conservative rhetoric, we actually can afford nice things that benefit the public.

The promise of New Jersey’s American Dream Mall had occupied my childhood imagination. What I found there one snowy day in 2021 was nothing but an American nightmare.

How the IMF & the World Bank—in the name of progress—succeed in keeping poor countries poor.

Because of consistent government intervention in the industry, we might call fast food the quintessential cuisine of global capitalism.

Developments in Florida and Illinois show how land is valued only as capital. What if we thought of land use differently?

It’s time to clear up one of the most enduring—and insidious—neoliberal myths about corporations. Shareholders don’t own corporations. Corporations are unowned sovereign entities, just like people. And that should terrify us.

Capitalist accumulation has always depended on cheap labor and resources extracted from the Global South. To end this violence we need a post-capitalist transition—otherwise, as climate breakdown accelerates, the ceaseless search for profit will drive us further into barbarism.

Current Affairs economist-in-residence Rob Larson offers a primer on rising prices and an assessment of conservative inflation panic.