Security for a Precarious Workforce
What will it take, economically and politically, to broadly regularize employment?
The Shame of Tax Havens
Taxes evaded in offshore havens could fund a lot of public services.
Employer Political Coercion: A Growing Threat
Since Citizens United, companies can legally require workers to participate in politics—and fire them if they refuse.
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Caricature of Black Reality
Ta-Nehisi Coates has written the race book of the year. Too bad it’s disempowering.
How the Voting Rights Act, Great as It Was, Ultimately Fell Short
The fight for voting rights hasn’t been the straightforward battle we once might have expected to win and be done with.
Why Black Colleges and Universities Still Matter
The continuing case for America’s historically black colleges and universities.
Bring Back Antitrust
Despite low inflation and some bargain prices, economic concentration and novel abuses of market power are pervasive in today’s economy—harming consumers, workers, and innovators. We need a new antitrust for a new predatory era.
How the U.S. Government Became Both More Secretive and More Open
The same decades that saw the growth of national-security secrecy saw the rise of the public’s “right to know.”
Why the Veterans Health System Is Better Than You Think
Despite ideological attacks and under-funding, the Veterans Health Administration is a model public system.
The Republican Structural Advantage
Republicans start every election cycle with structural advantages regardless of the issues and all the other factors that usually determine who wins elections.
Pushing Civic Tech Beyond Its Comfort Zone
By all means, let’s use technology to improve government services. But the real promise is greater political accountability.
Evictions and Conversions: The Dark Side of Airbnb
How the popular matching company facilitates landlord conversion of entire rental buildings to de facto hotels.
Can Campaign Finance Be Reformed From the Bottom Up?
Despite hostile courts, can our campaign-finance system be reformed from the bottom up?
How the Bronx Came Back (But Didn’t Bring Everyone Along)
The New York borough that once symbolized urban decline is safer and more stable—but most Bronxites’ lives are still precarious.
Eight Principles for Reforming Solitary Confinement
How we can reduce, make more humane, and ultimately eliminate a practice that, in Justice Kennedy’s words, drives prisoners “to the edge of madness”
Frustration Is Driving Both Parties’ Voters Toward Radical Make-Believe
Frustration is driving voters on both sides of the partisan divide toward radical make-believe
Hedge Funds: The Ultimate Absentee Landlords (Fall Preview)
How Wall Street capitalized on the foreclosure crisis to become the nation’s largest owner of single-family homes.
The European Prospect (Fall Preview)
With all the pathologies of the 1930s resurgent, Europe’s experiment in economic and social union has never been more at risk.
Our Incoherent China Policy (Fall Preview)
The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership is bad economics, and even worse as containment of China.
