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Featured analysis Updated 9/21/2026

Why a Diesel Export Ban Wouldn't Solve the Diesel Crisis

The idea behind a diesel export ban seems simple enough: Americans are paying extraordinarily high prices for diesel while U.S. refiners continue shipping enormous quantities of it overseas. So why not just keep that diesel here? The problem is that this fundamentally misunderstands how refineries operate and how deeply the U.S. petroleum market is integrated into the global energy market. An export ban might provide some very short-term relief, but the market response that follows could quickly undermine the entire point of the policy.

Updated 1/27/2026

Who the Democratic Party Is Really Losing — and Why Scolding the Left Won’t Fix It

The Democratic Party did not lose in 2024 because voters were “too far left.” It lost because party leadership ran to the right of its own base and then blamed that base for the fallout. Scolding disillusioned voters is not a strategy for winning elections — it is a strategy for shrinking the coalition. If Democrats want to defeat authoritarianism, they will have to follow the data and their voters, not their donors.

Updated 1/24/2026

Deregulation, Neoliberalism, and the Expanding Wealth Gap

From poisoned communities to unaffordable healthcare and vanishing homeownership, the costs of “free markets” are not theoretical—they are lived. This is not a policy accident; it is the predictable outcome of an economy designed to protect capital first and people last. This report attempts to address a few arguments made in defense of neoliberalism. Most notably, the idea that it produces a rising tide that raises all boats and that criticisms of neoliberalism are born out of "zero-sum" thinking.

Updated 1/13/2026

Blaming Immigrants Is a Fascist Misdirection

Blaming immigrants for economic hardship is not a policy failure—it is a political strategy. This essay traces how that strategy has been used historically by fascist regimes and how it is being deployed again to distract from the real sources of economic exploitation in the United States.

Updated 12/15/2025

The Inflationary Impact of Tariffs

As long as corporations can raise prices at will and workers lack protection, tariffs cannot fix what’s broken. Instead, they amplify the very inequalities they claim to address.