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  • President Donald Trump walks away after making a statement in the Rose Garden on June 1, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

    Demands for Trump removal grow as ‘fascist’ speech condemned as declaration of war against U.S. public

    Originally published: Common Dreams on June 2, 2020 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    “Trump needs to be removed now, because after the massacre it will be too late.”

  • An aerial view shows thousands of people as they fill the Expreso Las Américas highway calling for the ouster of Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló on July 22, 2019 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

    ‘The people have spoken’: estimated 400,000 Puerto Ricans flood streets to demand Rosselló resign immediately

    Originally published: Common Dreams on July 22, 2019 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    For him to think he can keep governing for another year and a half as if nothing has happened is insulting to our core.

  • Analysis of the OAS Mission’s Draft Final Report on Haiti’s Election

    Jake Johnston and Mark Weisbrot

    A draft copy of the Organization of American States (OAS) Report on Haiti’s election, “Organization of American States Expert Verification Mission, President Election — First Round 2010 — Final Report,”1 was leaked to the press last week, and the Center for Economic and Policy Research posted a copy on its website after receiving it from […]

  • Haiti’s Fatally Flawed Election

    Jake Johnston and Mark Weisbrot

    Executive Summary Before Haiti’s November 28 election was held, its legitimacy was called into question because of the exclusion of over a dozen political parties from the election — including Haiti’s most popular political party, Fanmi Lavalas.  The ban on Fanmi Lavalas was analogous to excluding the Democratic or Republican Party in the United States. […]

  • The Gains from Trade: South American Economic Integration and the Resolution of Conflict

    Jake Johnston and Mark Weisbrot

    It has long been argued that expanding commercial relations between countries acts as an incentive for nations to avoid hostilities up to and including armed conflict.  Indeed this was a major impetus behind the economic integration of Europe1 after World War II, which led to the European Union and more recently the currency union of […]

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Money on the Left Episodes

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

    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 Johnston

    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 Johnston

    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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