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How to end extreme inequality in the U.S.? Try an inheritance tax (and not a wealth tax)

We talk with Henry Aaron about why both Sanders and Warren have it wrong. Mr. Aaron is a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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On Cinema, Literature and Neoliberalism in Tunisia and Morocco

We speak with Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed about art and political economy. Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed is a PhD candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He works on modern Arabic literature and thought with a focus on literary engagement with postcolonial transformations in the political economy of the region, and interactions with pre-modern Islamic concepts of time such as those found in philosophical Sufism to negotiate these transformations. His work has appeared in such journals as Middle East CritiqueArab Studies Journal, and the Journal of North African Studies (forthcoming).

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Music by Podington Bear