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Phillip Longman
Phil joined the staff of the Washington Monthly in 2012. He is also the policy director at the Open Markets Institute and a lecturer at Johns Hopkins, where he teaches health care policy.
In addition to writing many feature articles for the Monthly, Phil’s work has appeared in such publications as The Atlantic Monthly, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harvard Business Review, The New Republic, The New Statesman, The New York Times Magazine, Politica Exterior, Der Spiegel, and World Politics Review. He is a graduate of Oberlin College, and was also a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University.
Phil is on X @LongmanPhil.
Posted inMagazine
How Democrats Can Save Social Security—and Win Elections
The trust fund can be rescued from insolvency without unpopular taxes on workers, and with significant benefit to economic productivity and the security of the middle class.
Posted inMagazine
The Secret to Reindustrializing America Is Not Tax Cuts and Tariffs. It’s Regulated Competition.
From airlines to energy, shipbuilding to railroads, America became a capitalist superpower in the 20th century based on careful market rules. It can do so again.
Posted inMagazine
Medicare Prices for All
Want a real raise? Slash health care costs by tying employer plans to Medicare rates.
Posted inMagazine
Make Transportation Fair Again
From cramped seats to captive shippers to stranded cities, re-regulating airlines, rail, and trucking could revive America’s heartland.
Posted inNewsletter
How the Washington Monthly Mentors the Next Generation of Leaders
Lina Khan was a recent college grad when she first wrote for this magazine. Here’s how you can help
Posted inNovember/December 2024
Train Drain
How deregulation and private equity have gutted the U.S. freight rail system—and with it, the promise of America’s industrial renewal.
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
Biden and Harris Broke the Suffocating “Washington Consensus” on Economics
Biden and Harris Broke the Suffocating “Washington Consensus” on Economics. They put a stake through neoliberalism. Now, the vice president has to convince voters that her antitrust, trade, and public investment policies, unlike Trump’s, will improve their lives.
Posted inJanuary/February/March 2024
How Fighting Monopoly Can Save Journalism
The collapse of the news industry is not an inevitable consequence of technology or market forces. It’s the result of policy mistakes over the past 40 years that the Biden administration is already taking measures to fix.
Posted inSeptember/October 2023
Can Aristopopulism Save Us?
Patrick Deneen wants to replace corrupt “structurally liberal” elites with a new elect of moral guardians.
