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Richard D. Wolff

Homeless people gather on Willow Street in the Tenderloin on Wednesday, May 6, 2020 in San Francisco, California. (Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

The U.S. economy excels at one thing: producing massive inequality

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How capitalism’s dogged defenders and propagandists defend it from criticism

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Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The D.C. political monopoly just does not get it

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Joe BIden, Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Can progressives save Biden from disastrous economic policies?

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Why capitalism was destined to come out on top in the 2020 election

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Amazon employees hold a protest and walkout over conditions at the company's Staten Island distribution facility on March 30, 2020 in New York City (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

How fascism has converged with capitalism to redefine government

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An activist shows sex workers how to apply hand sanitizer during an awareness campaign to promote safe measures against the spread of the new Coronavirus, COVID-19. (Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP via Getty Images)

COVID makes clear how the consequences of inequality can be fatal

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Donald Trump hugs the U.S. flag during CPAC 2019 on March 02, 2019 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Getty/Tasos Katopodis)

Why our government mostly helps people who need it the least — even during a crisis

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Tea Party supporters demonstrate outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2010 against the healthcare bill | Chinese airport security wear protective suits as they wait to check the health of travelers at Beijing Capital International Airport on March 24, 2020 in Beijing, China (Kevin Frayer/Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)

COVID-19 exposes the weakness of capitalism

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Police officers pepper spray a woman next to the Colorado State Capitol as protests against the death of George Floyd continue (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

How racism became the essential tool for maintaining a capitalist order

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The first day of the Strike WEF march on Davos on 18th of January 2020 near Davos, Switzerland. The first day of the march started in Lanquart with speeches and hot food and ended in Schiers. The protest is planned to finish in Davos with a public meeting in the town on the day the WEF begins. The march is a three day protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. The activists want climate justice and think that The WEF is for the world's richest and political elite only. (Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images)

There’s a crisis in U.S. capitalism

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Donald Trump (Getty Images/ Chip Somodevilla/ Getty Stock)

Capitalism has failed in fighting coronavirus

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Ties that bind: Sexual assault, gender and 21st-century capitalism

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American hyper-capitalism breeds the lonely, alienated men who become mass killers

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Beyond the minimum wage debate: Let’s move toward a system that works for all

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