Noah Berlatsky

Noah Berlatsky writes about the political economy for the Editorial Board. He lives in Chicago. Find him @nberlat.
Fretting about the price of gas is short-term thinking.
Mitch McConnell is wrong. The opposite is true.
Cash payments lift kids out of poverty. To the rightwing, though, that can’t be. The poor are poor, because they deserve their poverty.
We need to encourage less wealthy people to enter service.
If we fail to restrain the corruption of moneyed elites, the United States may go further down a path that’s difficult to retrace.
Supply chain issues are global. So are rising prices.
Valuing an educated public means paying teachers fairly.
A country with a zero-sum attitude toward education is a country ill-equipped to respond with civic responsibility to a pandemic.
We should value every life.
The United States can’t protect the public health of its residents without protecting the public health of everyone else.