America’s mega-state is now clearly its leftmost, too—and on social insurance, climate change, and immigrant rights, it has more capacity and desire to defeat Republican reaction than any other institution.
Features
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Hidden Monopolies That Raise Drug Prices
How pharmacy benefit managers morphed from processors to predators
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Will Suburban Activism Pave the Democratic Path to the House?
If they’re to retake Congress in 2018, Democrats need their newfound activist hordes to focus on health coverage—and diverse, upscale swing districts.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Hour of the Attorneys General
State Democratic AGs have assumed new importance in the effort to contain the Trump presidency.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Driverless Future?
If they ever get the bugs out, autonomous cars will put a lot of human drivers out of work.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Taking a Scalpel to Medicaid
Republican claims of their bill’s great flexibility for the states are a sham cover for disabling cuts.
Posted inWorking in America
Portable Benefits for an Insecure Workforce
Why Americans need portable benefits, what those benefits should look like, and how those benefits can be created and funded
Posted inWorking in America
Unions in the Precarious Economy
How collective bargaining can help gig and on-demand workers
Posted inAmerica and the World
America’s Interest in a Global Rule of Law
Will Trump destroy the global order that the U.S. has led?
Posted inEconomic Policy
Dismantling Dodd-Frank — And More
Candidate Trump promised to take on Wall Street. As deregulator-in-chief, he will be Wall Street’s best friend.
