It’s not socialism. Public factories are an old American answer to monopoly profiteering. The Progressive Caucus wants to bring them back.
Joel Dodge
Joel Dodge is the director of industrial policy and economic security at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator.
Posted inNovember/December 2025
Trump’s Industrial Policy: What’s Right and Wrong
The president uses government leverage to extract equity stakes, profit-sharing deals, and special voting rights from major corporations. These are familiar tools—but Trump’s unchecked dealmaking could be disastrous.
Posted inPolitics
Trump’s Industrial Policy: What’s Right and Wrong
The president uses government leverage to extract equity stakes, profit-sharing deals, and special voting rights from major corporations. These are familiar tools—but Trump’s unchecked dealmaking could be disastrous.Â
Posted inPolitics
In Defense of Everything-Bagel Liberalism
Critics warned that the Biden administration put so many conditions on the grants it offered to semiconductor manufacturers that the centerpiece of its industrial policy would fail. Those conditions turned out to be key to the program’s success.
Posted inPolitics
Why Liberals Should Embrace Permitting Reform
Joe Manchin’s plan to speed fossil fuel development could also help expand green energy.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
What Democrats Can Learn From Pete Buttigieg
The upstart candidate is showing liberals how to reclaim the language of freedom.
Posted inFeatured, Politics
Two Seats for the People in 2021
Democrats need to save the Supreme Court by packing it.
Posted inFeatured, Politics
What Democrats Can Learn from Robert Kennedy’s Politics of Dignity
To lead the country out of the doldrums of Trumpism, liberals need to address the lack of dignity in the lives of too many Americans.
Posted inRepublic 3.0
The Path to Medicare-for-All Starts with Medicare-for-Kids
The mechanics of single-payer are daunting. Could government-run health insurance for all American children be an attainable first step?
Posted inFeatured, Politics
The GOP Is Quietly Scheming to Gut Medicaid While You Weren’t Looking
Congressional Republicans want to make Medicaid even less generous than it was before Obamacare.
