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About Jake Johnson

Jake Johnson is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
  • Demonstrators hold protest signs during a march from the Atlanta Civic Center to the Georgia State Capitol on October 18, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Julia Beverly/Getty Images)

    Trump delivered 22% boost to billionaire wealth in 2025, but catastrophe for working class

    Originally published: Common Dreams on January 20, 2026 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    “After a year in office, Trump and the GOP majority betrayed their promises to working people, instead serving billionaire elites and wealthy corporations,” said the executive director of Americans for Tax Fairness.

  • Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel waves a Venezuelan national flag in Havana on January 3, 2026. (Photo by Adalberto Roque/AFP via Getty Images)

    After Venezuela assault, Trump and Rubio warn Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia could be next

    Originally published: Common Dreams on January 3, 2026 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    “The ‘Trump corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine—applied in recent hours with violent force over the skies of Caracas—is the single greatest threat to peace and prosperity that the Americas confront today,” said Progressive International.

  • U.S. Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine testify before the House Appropriations Committee's Defense Subcommittee on June 10, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

    Hegseth lays out a case for troop deployments in ‘any jurisdiction in the country’

    Originally published: Common Dreams on June 10, 2025 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    “The standoff on the streets of Los Angeles,” warned critics, “shows how truly eager Trump and his administration are to turn America’s vast warmaking powers inward on the president’s domestic foes.”

  • Tesla CEO Elon Musk gestures as he speaks during the inaugural parade in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 2025. (Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

    Lemkin Institute issues ‘red flag alert for genocide’ after Musk’s Nazi salutes

    Originally published: Common Dreams on January 21, 2025 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    “Trans people, refugees, and migrants are not the threats,” the group said. “The billionaires with close ties to our new president who flash the Nazi salute and seek to replace the old elites with a new caste—that is the real threat to America.”

  • Residents collect garbage and debris to burn in the town of Acoua after Cyclone Chido wreaked havoc on the French island territory of Mayotte on December 25, 2024. (Photo: Patrick Meinhardt/AFP via Getty Images)

    26 climate-fueled extreme weather events killed at least 3,700 people in 2024: Report

    Originally published: Common Dreams on December 27, 2024 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    “This exceptional year of extreme weather shows how dangerous life has already become… and highlights the urgency of moving away from planet-heating fossil fuels as quickly as possible.”

  • Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) arrives for a House hearing on September 20, 2023. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)

    No thanks to these 52 Dems, House defeats Bill enabling Trump assault on nonprofits

    Originally published: Common Dreams on November 13, 2024 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    “Every single Democrat who voted for this is not taking the threat of Trump remotely seriously and should be disqualified from any leadership positions moving forward,” said Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman.

  • Israel must end as ‘Genocidal Violence’

    UN expert says impunity for Israel must end as ‘Genocidal Violence’ spreads to West Bank

    Originally published: Common Dreams on September 3, 2024 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    “Apartheid Israel is targeting Gaza and the West Bank simultaneously, as part of an overall process of elimination, replacement, and territorial expansion,” said United Nations special rapporteur Francesca Albanese.

  • Analysis Shows Richest 10% Now Own Nearly 70% of All Household Wealth in U.S. (Photo: blacklistednews.com)

    In 41 U.S. States, richest 1% pay lower tax rates than everyone else

    Originally published: Common Dreams on January 9, 2024 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    “Almost nobody says we should have the richest pay the least. And yet when we look around the country, the vast majority of states have tax systems that do just that.”

  • Green Groups 'Undeterred' Despite US Judge Allowing Willow Oil Project to Proceed (Photo: Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    Climate groups plan to appeal as Judge upholds Biden approval of Willow Drilling Project

    Originally published: Common Dreams on November 10, 2023 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    “Beyond the illegality of Willow’s approval, Interior’s decision to greenlight the project in the first place moved us in the opposite direction of our national climate goals in the face of the worsening climate crisis.”

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory with John T. Harvey
    Jake Johnson

    We speak with John T. Harvey about a new article he co-wrote with Billy Saas titled, “A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory,” out this month in the September 2026 issue of the Journal of Economic Issues. Harvey is Hal Wright Professor of Economics at Texas Christian University. We discuss his recent publication in the […]

  • Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
    Jake Johnson

    Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]

  • Public Employment & Training from the Great Society to the “End of Welfare as We Know It”
    Jake Johnson

    This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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