- “Economists Hate Rent Control. Here’s Why They’re Wrong.” The American Prospect. May 16, 2023.
- “We Need an Economic Bill of Rights.” Jacobin. May 12th, 2023.
- “Inflation is causing real pain. But raising interest rates will make it worse” with Isabella Webber. The Guardian. August 17, 2022.
- “The Most Important Economic Policy Model Nobody Understands.” Noema Magazine. March 24, 2022.
- “Biden risks botching a key chance to fight climate change” with Thea Riofrancos. Washington Post. June 30, 2021.
- “On Key Issues Like the Civilian Climate Corps, Joe Biden Is Still Thinking Far Too Small.” Jacobin. April 27, 2021.
- “The Fight For Full Employment Starts Now.” People’s Policy Project. March 10, 2021.
- “Florida Legislature is attacking local progress on climate” with Sean Sellers. Sun Sentinel. March 9, 2021.
- “Does Biden’s insurance policy for the climate go far enough?” with James K. Boyce. The Hill. February 16, 2021.
- “Greening the Basic Income.” Unesco Inclusive Policy Lab. January 19, 2021. Included in UNESCO report on “Basic Income—On Data and Policy,” 2021.
- “Why Muddle the Public Side of the Green New Deal?” The American Prospect. December 2, 2020.
- Installment in: Public Investment Reimagined. A TAP Roundtable.
- “Why We Should Be Funding More Solyndras” with Nina Eichacker. MIT Technology Review. November 19, 2020.
- “We Need a Civilian Conservation Corps for Forest Management” with Zeke Hausfather. The Hill. September 25, 2020.
- “The Green New Deal’s Public Infrastructure Should be Funded by the Public” with Daniel Aldana Cohen. Dissent. September 21, 2020.
- “The Paul-Fleming Rule for Green Growth” with Billy Fleming. Forbes. April 10, 2020.
- “Voters Want A Green Stimulus” with J Mijin Cha, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Julian Brave NoiseCat. Data for Progress Blog. March 24, 2020.
- “A Green Stimulus to Rebuild our Economy: An Open Letter and Call to Action for Members of Congress” with Johanna Bozuwa, J. Minjin Cha, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Billy Fleming, Jim Goodman, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Daniel M Kammen, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Raj Patel, and Thea Riofrancos. Medium. March 22, 2020
- Covered in The Washington Post, Politico, The Hill, Science, MIT Technology Review, Huffington Post, Earther, E&E News, Market Watch, City Lab, Grist, & Common Dreams.
- Led to Dear Colleague Letter in the US House of Representatives signed by 55+ members of Congress.
- “The Case for a Green Stimulus.” Data for Progress Blog. March 20, 2020.
- “Decarbonization Must Be the Democrats’ Recession Plan” with Julian Brave NoiseCat. Data for Progress Blog. March 9, 2020.
- “Sanders Calls for a National Right to Housing” with Peter Gowan. Forbes. September 18, 2019.
- “Can Public Ownership of Utilities be Part of the Climate Solution?” with Johanna Bozuwa. Forbes. September 13, 2019.
- Republished in The Trouble. September 16, 2019.
- “It’s Time to Expand the Electric Vehicle Tax Credit.” Forbes. July 10, 2019.
- “New bill will get the labor market running on all cylinders” with Dean Baker. The Hill, June 28, 2019.
- “America’s Bipartisan Climate-Policy Failure” with Connor Rupp. Project Syndicate. June 21, 2019.
- “A Carbon Dividend Is Better than a Carbon Tax” with Anthony Underwood. Project Syndicate. May 15, 2019. Reprinted in the Denver Post.
- “Traditional Measures of Unemployment are Missing the Mark.” Dollars & Sense. May/June 2019 issue.
- “Overcoming the Ideology of Climate Inaction” with Anders Fremstad. Project Syndicate. February 25, 2019.
- “The Economic Case for the Green New Deal” with Susan R. Holmberg and J.W. Mason. Forbes. February 20, 2019.
- “Rethinking Collective Action and U.S. Labor Laws in a Monopolist Context” with Mark Stelzner. Washington Center for Equitable Growth. December 20, 2018.
- “Building on a Progressive Legacy: A New Generation’s New Deal” with Katie Kirchner. Forbes. December 5, 2018.
- “Why Socialists Should Back a Carbon Tax” with Anders Fremstad. Jacobin. September 19, 2018.
- “The Case for a US Public Banking Option” with Thomas Herndon. Project Syndicate. September 6, 2018.
- “There is Work to be Done: AI and the Future of Work.” Forbes. August 18, 2018.
- “Discriminatory Penalties at the Intersection of Race and Gender in the United States” with Darrick Hamilton and William Darity, Jr. Washington Center for Equitable Growth. August 7, 2018.
- “No Robo-Apocalypse.” Project Syndicate. July 20, 2018.
- “The Poor Need Bank Accounts, and USPS has The Answer” with Thomas Herndon. The Hill. April 26, 2018.
- “An Economic Bill of Rights for the 21st Century” with William Darity, Jr. and Darrick Hamilton. The American Prospect. March 5, 2018.
- “The Full Employment Solution” with William Darity, Jr. and Darrick Hamilton. The American Prospect. Winter, 2018.
- “Assessing the Possible Impact of the Graham-Cassidy Healthcare Bill on Human Mortality” with Fernando Tormos. Scholars Strategy Network Memorandum. September 25, 2017.
- “Massachusetts Should Adopt A Carbon Price.” Boston Business Journal. July 21, 2017.
- “California Climate Crossroads: Gov. Brown is Supporting a Giveaway to Polluters.” Huffington Post. July 13, 2017.
- “Forget a Higher Minimum Wage – Here’s a Better Way to Help American Workers” with William Darity, Jr. and Darrick Hamilton. Washington Monthly. July 6, 2017.
- “The GOP’s AHCA Will Cost Lives.” Dollars & Sense. June 13, 2017.
- “In NC, as in Kansas, trickle-down tax cuts are just a trick.” The News & Observer. April 17, 2017.
- “Gutting Climate Rules Will Slow Job Growth” with Lew Daly. Demos Policy Shop. March 28, 2017.
- “A Budget for the People?” Medium. March 23, 2017.
- “A Matter of Life and Death” with James K. Boyce. Dollars & Sense. March 22, 2017.
- “The Dakota Access Pipeline Doesn’t Make Economic Sense.” The Huffington Post. February 6, 2017.
- “Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee” with William Darity, Jr., and Darrick Hamilton. Jacobin. February 4, 2017.
- “Making Them Pay” with James K. Boyce. Jacobin. December 5, 2016.
- “A Job for Everyone.” U.S. News & World Report. October 7, 2016.
- “Profiting off Debt: Federal student loans facilitate a pernicious profit motive in higher education” with Anastasia Wilson. Jacobin. September 29, 2016.
- “Oregon Consumers Would Not Take a Hit if Tax Measure Passes” with Gerald Friedman, Mary C. King, and Martin Hart-Landsberg. The Oregonian. July 30,2016.
- “Despite Economic Growth, Middle-Income Americans Have Less Than They Did 40 Years Ago” with Emily Stephens. Truthout. June 2, 2016.
- “Can Markets Solve Climate Change? This Democratic Socialist Thinks So” with Anders Fremstad and James K. Boyce. The Nation. April 12, 2016.
- “Vox’s Tax Calculator is Wildly Misleading – So We Made a Better One” with David Rosnick and Emily Stephens. Online Op-Ed in The Nation. April 6, 2016.
- “Making College Free Could Add a Million New Black and Latino Graduates” with Alan Aja, Darrick Hamilton, and William Darity, Jr. Dissent. March 21,2016.
- “Bernie Gets Environmental Racism” with Helen Scharber and Anders Fremstad. U.S. News & World Report. March 17, 2016.
- “Campaign Challenge: Fix the African American Student Loan Crisis” with Darrick Hamilton and William Darity, Jr. The American Prospect. March 15, 2016.
- “Bernie Sanders’ plan for ‘free college’ will not destroy historically black colleges” with Darrick Hamilton and William Darity Jr. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. February 26, 2016.
- “For Profit or For Students?” With Anastasia Wilson. The Baseline Scenario. March 1, 2011.