By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective Public banking has been gaining traction for years, driven by a growing recognition that our current financial system often fails to serve the public g…

The second session in our fall series of webinars on AI issues in higher education provides examples of how to conduct public records requests to gather and analyze information pertaining to an instit...

Joseph Darda

Bad Representations of Academe Continue Apace. What can we learn from them?

Grassroots political organizer Jay Ponti had a scorching takedown for the richest man in the world, Elon Musk.

It is with profound sadness that we share the sudden and unexpected passing of our Executive Director, David Page. David's legacy will live on in the winter landscapes he loved, the public lands he wo...

By Will Beaman This essay is lightly adapted from a talk delivered at the 2026 American Comparative Literature Association conference. It contributes to a growing body of endogenous money theorizat…

Whatever rash remarks he may have made about the bond markets or spending commitments, Andy Burnham understands...

A viral TikTok recommendation sent the 2022 picture book 'Our World Is a Family' straight to the New York Times bestseller list. Now it's being reprinted June 19.

Why the Robert Smith feature on "what's wrong with me" isn’t just a guest spot. An essay on how Olivia Rodrigo subverts the typical anxiety of influence.

A viral TikTok recommendation sent the 2022 picture book 'Our World Is a Family' straight to the New York Times bestseller list. Now it's being reprinted June 19.

The Money on the Left Collective is proud to launch its new podcast series, In the Loop: Revolutionizing Public Finance, hosted by Scott Ferguson, Tyler Suksawat, and Will Beaman. In this debu…

On Britain’s universities.

In Lebanon, Israel seems to be following the same logic it deployed in Gaza: emptying out entire areas through what amounts to ethnic cleansing.

Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

New Haven People's Center on April 18, 2026   I gave this talk at the 45 th Anniversary Conference of the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale ...

The executive director of World Press Photo said this image shows the inconsolable grief of children losing their father in a place built for justice. It is a stark and necessary record of family separation following the U.S. reform policies.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

However genuine Anthropic’s commitment to safety restrictions may be, the company’s actions are a corporate end run around public governance.

A group of new accounts on the prediction market Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire on April 7, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for those users.

And How to Stop It

Angela Fu of Poynter Online published a story on Thursday that’s been rocketing around media circles. Her lead: “Artificial intelligence company Nota — whose clients include organizatio…

AI is boosting output while quietly chipping away at the skills behind it.

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Local leaders report already-strapped police departments racked up overtime bills in the millions while others report a multi-million dollar hit to business during the worst ICE surges.