America’s ability to contain the coronavirus has been compromised by decades of neoliberal ideology. And it is literally killing us.
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How Neoliberal Policy Shaped the Internet—and What to Do About It Now
Unrestrained digital markets have given us monopoly, pervasive surveillance, and powerful vectors of disinformation. But a new agenda is emerging to turn things around.
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Money Against Democracy
How neoliberals captured the machinery of the state to keep citizens from regulating markets
Posted inEconomic Policy
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.
Posted inEconomic Policy
AMLO’s Gamble
Mexico’s decidedly leftist new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is taking on the business-political-criminal elite that has dominated his nation, and drenched it in bloodshed, for the past 40 years.
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Lesson for Democrats: Back to Class
It was the party’s neoliberalism that did it in.