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Impeachment and the Righteous Republicans

Alexander Heffner

Jul 21, 2019

Historian Brenda Wineapple discusses her new book The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a New Nation.
Planned Parenthood Made the Right Decision

Robert Kuttner

Jul 19, 2019

Ousting Dr. Leana Wen as president brings the organization's focus back to where it should be: abortion rights.
Trump Feeds on Hatred. Four Members of Congress Clap Back.

Gabrielle Gurley

Jul 19, 2019

The president stokes race-baiting and potentially worse in service of his re-election campaign. Democrats must continue to call out these distractions and his epic failure to address the real concerns of average Americans.
Fifty Years After the Moon Landing, Recalling One Small Misstep

Tad Daley & Jane Shevtsov

Jul 19, 2019

Why did the first humans to set foot off Planet Earth plant the flag of only part of Planet Earth?
Democratic Leaders Rake In Corporate Cash as "the Squad" Sticks With Small Donors

Alex Kotch

Jul 19, 2019

A Sludge analysis of new second-quarter campaign finance reports has found that the Democratic leaders in the House combined to take in nearly $1.2 million in contributions from corporate and trade association PACs.
The Fight for 15’s Long, Winding, and Brandeisian Road

Harold Meyerson

Jul 18, 2019

The progression of the Fight for 15 from a left-wing community organization and a left-wing union to left-wing cities to left-wing states to the Democratic mainstream is representative of the broader transformation of the Democratic Party in recent years.
Steve Ricchetti, Top Biden Campaign Aide, Was a Health-Care Lobbyist

David Dayen

Jul 18, 2019

The vice president’s former chief of staff once represented hospitals and drug companies. Now he is part of a campaign that is attacking Medicare for All.
States Lock In Fair and Just Redistricting Despite Supreme Court Decision

Miles Rapoport

Jul 18, 2019

Voting rights advocates and litigators in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and other key states are fighting against gerrymandering—and reaping dividends just in time for 2021.

Summer 2019

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.
Summer 2019

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.
Summer 2019

As Consumer Protections Dwindle, Schools Push Financial Literacy

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?
Summer 2019

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.

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If San Pedro Sula Is Murder Capital of the World, Who Made It That Way?

David Bacon

Jun 13, 2019

Refugees flee this Honduran city, which has long been a vast, American-owned sweatshop.
Benefits on the Line

Kalena Thomhave

Jun 19, 2019

The Trump administration has proposed to adjust how we measure poverty, in an ill-disguised attempt to cut benefit levels.
The Voter Suppression Chronicles

Bob Moser

Jun 20, 2019

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.
The Double Standard of Antitrust Law

Sanjukta Paul

Jun 24, 2019

How today’s antitrust law strengthens top-down corporate control and weakens democratic cooperation
Julian Assange, the Espionage Act of 1917, and Freedom of the Press

Stephen Rohde

Jun 19, 2019

The case against Assange represents the first time the 102-year-old act has been used to target a media organization.
Maine Exhales

Gabrielle Gurley

Jun 12, 2019

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?

The Magazine

Vol. 30 No. 3

Summer 2019
Columns

The Anti-Entrenchment Agenda

Paul Starr

Entrenched power is the problem. What can be done about it?

Try SurveillApp!

Robert Kuttner & David Dayen

Notebook

Can Europe Come Together?

Jonathan Guyer

The elections to the European Parliament halted the rise of the far right but produced more fragmentation—and that’s not good enough.

Countering Biden's Status Quo Politics

David Dayen

Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders offer the most direct challenge yet to the front-runner in the 2020 Democratic primary.

Does the Civil Rights Act Protect Gay Employees? The Court Will Decide.

Gabriel Arana

And the conservative justices will have to choose between their self-proclaimed allegiance to what a law says and their social biases.

Benefits on the Line

Kalena Thomhave

The Trump administration has proposed to adjust how we measure poverty, in an ill-disguised attempt to cut benefit levels.

Culture

Hobsbawm, Unrepentant

Leonard Benardo

A new biography connects the life and work of the great radical historian of capitalism.

Money Against Democracy

Jordan Ecker

How neoliberals captured the machinery of the state to keep citizens from regulating markets

The General Store of the U.S.A.

Max Sawicky

Do Walmart and Amazon's logistics triumphs reveal a path forward for a centrally planned economy?
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?

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The Politics of Terrorism Lead Desperate Hollande to Embrace Sarkozy

Karen Nussbaum

In an effort to marginalize his nation's large far-right party in the wake of attacks by Islamist radicals, the president of France teams up with an old foe.

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