Features

• Neoliberalism: Political Success, Economic Failure

  Robert Kuttner

  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.
• Special Report: Monopoly Nation

  In the Land of the Giants

  David Dayen
• Special Report: Monopoly Nation

  How Digital Advertising Markets Really Work

  Dina Srinivasan

  They’re shaping our market, our democracy—our entire reality. If we’re going to fix them, we need to understand them.
• Special Report: Monopoly Nation

  The Insulin Racket

  Natalie Shure

  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.
• Special Report: Monopoly Nation

  Big Finance's Stealth Deregulatory Maneuver

  Rachel M. Cohen

  Teaching students how to manage their money has become mandatory in many K-12 classrooms. But can it substitute for real enforcement of financial fraud?
• Special Report: Monopoly Nation

  The Double Standard of Antitrust Law

  Sanjukta Paul

  How today’s antitrust law strengthens top-down corporate control and weakens democratic cooperation
• Special Report: Monopoly Nation

  Monopolist’s Worst Nightmare: The Elizabeth Warren Interview

  David Dayen

  "The problem is a government that won't get in the fight on the side of the people." 
• The Voter Suppression Chronicles

  Bob Moser

  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.
• Climate Change and the Democrats

  Harold Meyerson

  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.
• The Reluctant Majority

  Paul Taylor

  Today's teens are likely to be even more progressive than the millennials who voted in 2018, but will they show up?
• Maine Exhales

  Gabrielle Gurley

  Democrats are ascendant in the Pine Tree State. Attorney General Janet Mills became Maine’s first woman governor, and the party took control of the state Senate and increased its House majority. As Mainers breathe easier and state officials begin to clean up the mess left behind by former governor Paul LePage and his cabal, can Maine provide a beacon for the rest of America?