The General Store of the U.S.A.
Do Walmart and Amazon’s logistics triumphs reveal a path forward for a centrally planned economy?
Try SurveillApp!
These busy days, it’s hard to keep track of all that you’ve been doing. You may not remember what websites you’ve visited, who you’ve talked to and texted on your phone, every angle of every room in your house, and your precise location at every waking moment. Well, we’re the big web platform companies. And…
Money Against Democracy
How neoliberals captured the machinery of the state to keep citizens from regulating markets
Hobsbawm, Unrepentant
A new biography connects the life and work of the great radical historian of capitalism.
The Anti-Entrenchment Agenda
Entrenched power is the problem. What can be done about it?
Climate Change and the Democrats
If they have the smarts, Democrats can prevent a schism in the progressive coalition, and turn the Green New Deal into a jobs machine for workers displaced from the carbon economy.
Looking Backward
Robert Kuttner has been unmasking the fallacies of neoliberalism for decades. The following are a few excerpts: The time is overdue to reclaim liberalism, without prefixes, qualifiers, or apologies. My neoliberal friends are right to ask hard questions and to search for creative new approaches. We can certainly debate which strategies make most sense. But…
Neoliberalism: Political Success, Economic Failure
The invisible hand is more like a thumb on the scale for the world’s elites. That’s why market fundamentalism has been unmasked as bogus economics but keeps winning politically.
How Digital Advertising Markets Really Work
They’re shaping our market, our democracy—our entire reality. If we’re going to fix them, we need to understand them.
The Double Standard of Antitrust Law
How today’s antitrust law strengthens top-down corporate control and weakens democratic cooperation
The Insulin Racket
Insulin is a 100-year-old drug whose wholesale price has tripled in ten years. The reasons why explain everything wrong with America’s broken prescription drug market.
In the Land of the Giants
This article appears in the Summer 2019 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. I spent the day after the 2016 election at Yale Law School, Hillary Clinton’s alma mater. I was supposed to speak to a foreclosure litigation class about my book Chain of Title, and then address the local chapter of the…
The Voter Suppression Chronicles
When the Roberts Court all but nullified the Voting Rights Act, it said the pre-1965 practices were long gone. New hearings by the House make clear: They’re back.
Benefits on the Line
The Trump administration has proposed to adjust how we measure poverty, in an ill-disguised attempt to cut benefit levels.
Monopolist’s Worst Nightmare: The Elizabeth Warren Interview
“The problem is a government that won’t get in the fight on the side of the people.”
They’re a Blue Tidal Wave—If They Vote
Today’s teens are likely to be even more progressive than the millennials who voted in 2018, but will they show up?
Can Europe Come Together?
The elections to the European Parliament halted the rise of the far right but produced more fragmentation—and that’s not good enough.
