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From the Magazine
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Summer 2019
How Digital Advertising Markets Really Work
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Summer 2019
The Insulin Racket
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Summer 2019
As Consumer Protections Dwindle, Schools Push Financial Literacy
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Summer 2019
Neoliberalism: Political Success, Economic Failure
Must-Reads
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If San Pedro Sula Is Murder Capital of the World, Who Made It That Way?
Jun 13, 2019
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Benefits on the Line
Jun 19, 2019
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The Voter Suppression Chronicles
Jun 20, 2019
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The Double Standard of Antitrust Law
Jun 24, 2019
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Julian Assange, the Espionage Act of 1917, and Freedom of the Press
Jun 19, 2019
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Maine Exhales
Jun 12, 2019
The Magazine
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Vol. 30 No. 3Summer 2019
Columns
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The Anti-Entrenchment Agenda
Entrenched power is the problem. What can be done about it? -
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Notebook
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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. -
Countering Biden's Status Quo Politics
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.
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
The Trump administration has proposed to adjust how we measure poverty, in an ill-disguised attempt to cut benefit levels.
Culture
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Hobsbawm, Unrepentant
A new biography connects the life and work of the great radical historian of capitalism. -
Money Against Democracy
How neoliberals captured the machinery of the state to keep citizens from regulating markets -
The General Store of the U.S.A.
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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. -
Special Report: Monopoly Nation
In the Land of the Giants
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Special Report: Monopoly Nation
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. -
Special Report: Monopoly Nation
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. -
Special Report: Monopoly Nation
Big Finance's Stealth Deregulatory Maneuver
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
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
"The problem is a government that won't get in the fight on the side of the people." -
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. -
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. -
The Reluctant Majority
Today's teens are likely to be even more progressive than the millennials who voted in 2018, but will they show up? -
Maine Exhales
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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Trickle Downers
The folly, dysfunctions, and sheer idiocy of feed-the-rich economic policies.
Another GOP Brainstorm—“You’ll Be Healthier If We Take Away Your Health Care”—Struck Down in Court
A federal judge rejects Medicaid work requirement programs in Arkansas and Kentucky because kicking people off their health insurance won’t somehow improve their health.
A Bad Week for Paul Manafort and School Scammers—But a Great Year for White-Collar Crime
Under Trump, prosecutions for white-collar crimes have reached an all-time low, while prosecutions for being an undocumented immigrant have soared.
Amazon Is Giving Up on New York, and Activists in Nashville and Northern Virginia Are Energized
Like their New York counterparts, organizers in other potential sites of Amazon expansion want a more democratic process that produces more equitable growth.
Thanks to Trump, Payday Lenders Will Keep on Merrily Bilking the Poor
The government shutdown reminded us that millions of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck—which payday lenders will only continue to exploit if the CFPB has its way.
Border Wall or No, Immigrants Will Soon Have to Scale a Paywall
Proposed new Trump administration rules could keep low-income immigrants from applying for green cards or citizenship.
