A conversation with presidential biographers Jonathan Alter and Kai Bird.
Magazine
Can Biden Coop Up the Monopolies?
The administration and a bipartisan Congress want to bring relief to livestock farmers. Big Ag lobbyists want to stop them.
Why Are We Letting Monopolists Corner Space?
Fleets of low Earth orbit satellites are creating a new global communications infrastructure full of promise and peril. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos should not control it.
Amtrak Joe vs. the Modern Robber Barons
Biden’s big bet on rail infrastructure will be wasted unless he takes on the financiers who control the industry.
The Doctor Will Not See You Now
Primary care is a disaster. Consolidation is making it worse. And a revolution is coming.
Biden’s Next Agenda: Anti-monopoly
How enhancing America’s antitrust regime is a winning issue for the administration—and the country.
The White Mountain Boys
Radical libertarians in New Hampshire have pushed a popular Republican governor to the right. That might save the Democrats a Senate seat.
How to Make Power Less Corrupting
Post-Trump new ideas for keeping authoritarians out of the Oval Office—and the squad car.
Why Daniel Boone Might Not be Canceled
The archetypal frontiersman was unsure about the colonial project he built.
The Deal of a Convert
What public figures gain, or lose, when they switch religions.
