As Election Day draws near in New York City, entire genres of attack-pieces against Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani have emerged. Today’s New York Times, for instance, contains a long analysis of just how much some of Mamdani’s proposals will cost, though equivalent dollar estimates of how much they will boost the city’s economy are […]
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The Socialist Case for Antitrust
The modern antitrust movement, sometimes called the neo-Brandeisians after the former Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis, had a major influence on the Biden administration. Now that Donald Trump has returned to power, what’s next? Over at the new publication The Argument, Matt Bruenig has a critical review of what he calls the urtext of the modern antitrust […]
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How Mamdani’s Predecessors Built Democratic Socialism
A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin’s Freedom Budget is the key to understanding the appeal of the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor.
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This Greenland Is Red
The small island nation has one of the largest and most successful portfolios of state-owned companies in the world. What?
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What the Polls Are Screaming to ‘Mainstream’ Democrats
Today on TAP: The Democratic rank and file is much more aligned with Bernie, AOC, and Zohran than it is with Chuck and Hakeem.
Posted inEconomic Policy
When L’État C’est Trump, the U.S. Goes in for State Capitalism
It’s Trump, not Mamdani, who’s having government take over businesses.
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DSA Convenes, Argues, and Celebrates
Energized by Zohran Mamdani’s primary triumph, 1,200 DSA members came to Chicago to chart the group’s future.
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Fear Government Control of Markets? It’s Trump, Not Mamdani, Who’s Your Problem.
Today on TAP: Trump’s Pentagon just became the majority shareholder in America’s only rare-earths mine. Where’s the Republican outrage?
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The Mainstream Begins to Come to Mamdani
So, he’s a socialist. But his agenda sure is popular, and in the American progressive tradition.
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When the Capitals of Capitalism Go Socialist
Today On TAP: When Wall Street gazillionaires take over a city, that city may rise up against them.
