Introducing the Sustainable Capital Markets Act: A proposal for reforming Wall Street
A new feeder bill for the Steady State Economy Act, the Sustainable Capital Markets Act (SCMA), is a launchpad for capital-markets reform.
October 23, 2026
Washington State invests my pension in genocide. I’m demanding divestment
Workers across the US are demanding divestment from firms that profit from weapons and surveillance. I’m one of them.
October 22, 2026
Tax the rich and save the world
A movement to reshape the structure of taxation in the U.S. is gaining steam.
October 16, 2026
Trump’s pronatalist policy puts GDP growth before reproductive freedom
Trump clearly represents an unmitigated disaster for the steady state, with consequences that include rolling back decades of progress in gender equality, contraceptive access, and the lower birth rates that result.
October 16, 2026
Data centers have exposed big tech’s trust deficit
Americans used the products for twenty years without trusting the companies. A data center is the first thing they could vote on.
October 15, 2026
Amazon is deploying AI to spy on its workers and bust unions before they form
Internal company documents obtained by a Canadian labor board show how Amazon is tracking workers’ every move.
October 13, 2026
Academic prison: We are all trapped within the modernity pen – and academica offers no escape
Inspired by author Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael, I compare modernity to a prison whose bars few inmates can even detect. Academia is its own sort of prison.
October 12, 2026
Nourishing a Bioregional Economy
In the globalized economy, money is the shaper of outcomes, including whose work is valued, how the natural world gets used (and abused), and even who gets into political office. If bioregioning is critical to achieving a prosocial and environmentally sound society, the economy needs to go bioregional too.









