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Deforestation | Bare store shelves (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Bloomberg Creative/ Alan Powdrill)

Climate change is ruining supply chains

The plates used to print the new Series 2001 one dollar bill notes are stored November 21, 2001 at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, DC. The new dollar bills contain the signatures of U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O''Neill and U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Modern Monetary Theory: Why it matters

Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, before the House Financial Services Committee. Yellen said the financial health of the nation's banking system has strengthened considerably since the 2008 financial crisis, in part because of tougher regulations passed by Congress in 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

The gender gap in economics is huge

Veronika Dolar - The Conversation

Donald Trump and Joe Biden (Getty Images/Salon)

America: A failed state

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Grocery stores were packed with big crowds and long lines as latest spike of COVID-19 cases prompted panic buying across the country on March 12, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Marketing-speak is bad for the planet

Kate Yoder - Grist

Brian Deese, Joe Biden and Neera Tanden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden's problematic economic team

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The pandemic comes for your turkey

Hospitality workers wait in line in a basement garage to apply for unemployment benefits in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

The specter of long-term unemployment

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At the 1944 Democratic National Convention, delegates show support for the current Vice-President, Henry A. Wallace (Getty Images)

The decay of the Democrats

Redlining Neighborhood Concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Redlining still hurting Black families

Ithaca, New York (Getty Images)

The lesson of Ithaca's rent cancellation

Art Laffer (FOX News)

Trump task force member's racist remark

Roger Sollenberger

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Homeless women wearing masks sit on a hand cart in Mumbai, India (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Many poor Indians see their lot worsen

Moushumi Roy, Tirth Bhatta

Nurse holding up fist in protest | Plague Doctor illustration (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

How the Plague helped end feudalism

Ground crew at the Los Angeles International airport unload pallets of supplies of medical personal protective equipment, PPE, from a China Southern Cargo plane upon its arrival on Friday, April 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

A democratic alliance to stop pandemics

Robert Reich | Registered nurses and health care workers protest a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) available for frontline workers amid the coronavirus pandemic (Win McNamee/Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Reich: Oligarchs "cashing in" on COVID

Keith A. Spencer

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Shoppers seeking to stock up on supplies amid the coronavirus threat line up outside a grocery store in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)

Pandemic-proof businesses

A man wearing a surgical face mask walks passed closed shops (Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

Small biz in big trouble

Dick Cheney and Donald Trump (AP Photo/Salon)

Market patriotism's blood sacrifice

Timothy Recuber

President Bush signs the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 in the Oval Office after the House passed the $700 billion financial bailout bill at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. | US President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Oval Office about the widening coronavirus crisis on March 11, 2020 in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak/Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

Late capitalism primed us for pandemic

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Democratic presidential hopeful Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (R) gestures next to former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg during the ninth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by NBC News, MSNBC, Noticias Telemundo and The Nevada Independent at the Paris Theater in Las Vegas, Nevada, on February 19, 2020. (MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

What's radical about Warren's feminism

Amanda Marcotte

Young woman working in coffee house (Getty Images)

Time for a national paid leave policy

$A large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images)$

Even Pennsylvania doesn't love fracking

(Terry Vine/Getty Images)

Are your medications worth its price?

Lola Butcher - Undark

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