Monopoly Nation features stories by David Dayen, Dina Srinivasan, Rachel M. Cohen, and more, on concentrated corporate power and how if affects our privacy, our democracy, our lives at work, our finances, and our well-being.
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Issue: Summer 2019
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The General Store of the U.S.A.
Do Walmart and Amazon's logistics triumphs reveal a path forward for a centrally planned economy? Read more
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Money Against Democracy
How neoliberals captured the machinery of the state to keep citizens from regulating markets Read more
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Hobsbawm, Unrepentant
A new biography connects the life and work of the great radical historian of capitalism. Read more
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The Anti-Entrenchment Agenda
Entrenched power is the problem. What can be done about it? Read more
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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. Read more
Mary Parsons
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. Read more
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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. Read more
The Double Standard of Antitrust Law
How today’s antitrust law strengthens top-down corporate control and weakens democratic cooperation Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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Benefits on the Line
The Trump administration has proposed to adjust how we measure poverty, in an ill-disguised attempt to cut benefit levels. Read more
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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." Read more
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They're a Blue Tidal Wave—If They Vote
Today's teens are likely to be even more progressive than the millennials who voted in 2018, but will they show up? Read more
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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. Read more
