Chris Sturr, co-editor of Dollars & Sense, interviewed Sasha Breger Bush, associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Denver. Sasha is author of our March/April 2026 cover story, Raw Materials and Raw Power: Greenland, Ven...

At about 6:50 a.m. Eastern Time on Monday, March 23, a slumbering market for trading futures in crude oil sprang to life. At 7:04 a.m., just 14 minutes later, President Donald Trump posted his message on Truth Social announcing that he had defer...

This article appeared in the September/October 2001 issue of Dollars & Sense, and is still remarkably salient today. James Petras, a radical sociologist who wrote on imperialism, power, and inequality, died on January 17, 2026, his 89th birthday. For more on Petras, see K.M. Seethi's tribute in

As of March 16, the cost to the U.S. military of the combined U.S-Israeli attack on Iran has been estimated to be as high as $1 billion per day (you can find an accounting 

“And on the tax front, it’s time for rich people like me to pay more,” Mr. Romney writes in the New York Times.

The truth of the relative tax burden is best shown by the share of income taxes paid by income level.

The top 1% paid an average tax rate of 26.1% in 2022, while the bottom 50% paid 3.74% on average.

And the bottom 50%? They reported 11...