A single-payer system will degenerate into corporate welfare unless we take on health care monopolies.
The Monopolized Economy
Posted inEconomy, June/July/August 2017, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
How to Win Rural Voters Without Losing Liberal Values
A century ago, urban progressives and agrarian populists united around a politics of taking on corporate monopolies. The Democratic Party’s future may depend on doing the same today.
Posted inEconomy, June/July/August 2017, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
The Monthly Interview: Tom Perriello
Today is the Virginia gubernatorial primary election and candidate Tom Perriello is the first high-profile candidate to make anti-monopoly policy a key plank of his economic agenda.
Posted inEconomy, Featured, June/July/August 2017, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
Three Ideas to Check Trump and Revive the Democratic Party
How to (actually!) make America great again.
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, March/April/May 2017, The Monopolized Economy
The Decline of Black Business
And what it means for American democracy.
Posted inCover, Economy, January/February 2017, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
Democrats Must Become the Party of Freedom
Re-embracing anti-monopoly will reinvigorate American liberty and beat back Trumpism.
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 inEconomy, Magazine, November/December 2016, The Monopolized Economy
Hillary Opens the Overton Window
The larger political sphere is finally wising up on antitrust policy.
Posted inEconomy, Political Animal, The Monopolized Economy
Hillary Clinton Finally Takes On Corporate Monopolists
Yesterday in Toledo, Hillary Clinton gave a speech in which she linked Donald Trump’s tax manipulations to a broader critique of a “rigged” corporate system—one that allows Wells Fargo to create sham bank accounts and drug companies to raise prices unconscionably. That critique of hers isn’t new. What was new, as the New York Time’s […]
Posted inBooks, Economy, Magazine, September/October 2016, The Monopolized Economy
Made from Concentrate
Four companies decide what meat you eat, two choose what milk you buy, and soon only one will determine what beer you drink. Are we all fine with that?
