Despite low inflation and some bargain prices, economic concentration and novel abuses of market power are pervasive in today’s economy—harming consumers, workers, and innovators. We need a new antitrust for a new predatory era.
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Posted inCivil Rights in America
Campus Cops: Authority Without Accountability
Private campus police departments often have less transparency but just as much power as city police.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Why the Veterans Health System Is Better Than You Think
Despite ideological attacks and under-funding, the Veterans Health Administration is a model public system.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Pushing Civic Tech Beyond Its Comfort Zone
By all means, let’s use technology to improve government services. But the real promise is greater political accountability.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Evictions and Conversions: The Dark Side of Airbnb
How the popular matching company facilitates landlord conversion of entire rental buildings to de facto hotels.Â
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Can Campaign Finance Be Reformed From the Bottom Up?
Despite hostile courts, can our campaign-finance system be reformed from the bottom up?
Posted inEconomic Policy
How the Bronx Came Back (But Didn’t Bring Everyone Along)
The New York borough that once symbolized urban decline is safer and more stable—but most Bronxites’ lives are still precarious.Â
Posted inLaw and Justice
Eight Principles for Reforming Solitary Confinement
How we can reduce, make more humane, and ultimately eliminate a practice that, in Justice Kennedy’s words, drives prisoners “to the edge of madness”
Posted inEconomic Policy
Hedge Funds: The Ultimate Absentee Landlords (Fall Preview)
How Wall Street capitalized on the foreclosure crisis to become the nation’s largest owner of single-family homes.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Our Incoherent China Policy (Fall Preview)
The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership is bad economics, and even worse as containment of China.
