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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 inEconomy, Featured, Magazine, November/December 2018, The Monopolized Economy
The Case For Small-Business Cooperation
How America’s anti-monopoly laws got turned against the little guy.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care
Can Big Medicine Control Big Pharma? (Hint: the Answer Is ‘No’)
Four giant health care systems are joining forces to produce generic drugs at a lower cost to themselves. But, that doesn’t mean the savings will be passed on to consumers.
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, November/December 2017, The Monopolized Economy
How Big Medicine Can Ruin Medicare for All
A single-payer system will degenerate into corporate welfare unless we take on health care monopolies.
Posted inHealth Care, Political Animal
More Fake News about VA Hospitals
This time, the hapless New York Times is the culprit.
Posted inEconomy, Featured, Magazine, November/December 2016, The Monopolized Economy
How to Make Conservatism Great Again
To save their party from Trumpism, Republicans need to once again take on monopolists.
Posted inCover, Economy, Magazine, November/December 2015, The Monopolized Economy
Bloom and Bust
Regional inequality is out of control. Here’s how to reverse it.
Posted inEconomy, June/July/August 2015, Magazine
Wealth and Generations
By focusing on the growing riches of the “1 percent,” we miss another form of inequality that is bigger, and arguably even more dangerous.
Posted inGovernment, Health Care, Magazine, March/April/May 2015
Lost in Obamacare
Buried in Steven Brill’s convoluted tome are important truths about how to reform our health care delivery system.
Posted inBooks, Health Care, Magazine, November/December 2014
The American Way of Dying
How our refusal to face up to the realities of aging and mortality causes needless suffering.
