Greedflation 2.0: How Tariffs Could Become an Excuse for Corporate Price Gouging (with Hal Singer)
During COVID, corporations blamed supply chain shocks for rising prices while quietly raising prices higher than costs, thereby boosting their profits...
Why Democracy Needs a New Operating System (with K. Sabeel Rahman)
Decades of trickle-down thinking hollowed out our government—and now the anti-democracy crowd is finishing the job. This week, legal scholar and forme...
Democracy in Chains (with Nancy MacLean)
This week, we’re revisiting a critical conversation we had back in 2020 with author and historian Nancy MacLean, in which she exposes how today’s thre...
The Abundance Doctrine (with Mike Konczal)
What does “abundance” actually mean—and who is it really for? In this episode, Goldy and Paul welcome back economic policy expert Mike Konczal to unpa...
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back (with Marc Dunkelman)
Why does it feel like we can’t build anything anymore? In this episode, Nick and Goldy talk with author Mark Dunkelman about his new book Why Nothing ...
Live From DC: Turning Middle-Out Economics into Good Politics
Timid tweaks won’t fix a broken economy. From Nick Hanauer’s blunt critique of Democratic incrementalism to a candid conversation with Representatives...
America Needs an Economic Bill of Rights (with Mark Paul)
Trickle-downers want you to believe that in America, freedom is a narrow idea—freedom from taxes, from regulation, from government itself. But what go...
The Middle-Out Moment Is Still Here
Twelve months ago, Democracy Journal announced we were entering the "Middle-Out Moment." A year later—after a brutal election and rising uncertainty—t...
Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party (with Lainey Newman)
For decades, unions were more than just labor organizations—they were community anchors that shaped working-class identity and political loyalty. But ...
Wall Street’s War on Workers (with Les Leopold)
Mass layoffs have become a routine corporate strategy—not because companies are struggling, but because Wall Street demands it. In Wall Street’s War o...