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Radicalism has arrived at the centre of US tax policy. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the mercurial New York congresswoman, recently proposed a 70% marginal tax [...]

Free-market capitalism has a bad reputation. The easy promises of socialism are an obvious part of the problem, able as it is to paint the individualism of [...]

When thousands of school children walked out of class to join a UK-wide protest against political inaction on climate change, they were widely applauded. Some [...]

Is democracy experiencing a bit of a crisis? The Brexit process has highlighted the risk the establishment runs when they ask “the people”; the French [...]

Austerity has a bad reputation. The (thoroughly unsuccessful) attempts to balance the books in western democracies – who for decades have been spending more [...]

Inequalities, the left is keen to tell us, are entrenched. When more blacks are stop-searched by police it is used as proof of institutionalised racism. If [...]

Modern Monetary Theory (“MMT”) is the new cool kid on the economic ideas block. Well, it’s not quite new: MMT traces its root back to the early [...]

For libertarians, the state is the enemy. We are opposed to government from a philosophical as well as a utilitarian angle, believing that voluntary [...]

Where is the revolution? That’s the question the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee asks in her column entitled ‘How the right tricked people into supporting [...]

Friday the 4th of January was "Fat Cat Friday". According to the High Pay Centre, only three days into the new year the average FTSE 100 chief executive would [...]