Why Democrats Could Do Better in November Than Everyone Thinks
January/February 2014
Posted inEconomy, Government, Health Care, January/February 2014, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
After Obamacare
A frenzy of hospital mergers could leave the typical American family spending 50 percent of its income on health care within ten years—and blaming the Democrats. The solution requires banning price discrimination by monopolistic hospitals.
Posted inEconomy, Government, January/February 2014, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
Big Beef
Independent ranchers and animal rights activists don’t agree about much, except that it’s time to stop using federal tax dollars to support the meat lobby.
Posted inGovernment, January/February 2014, Magazine
The Corporate “Free Speech” Racket
How corporations are using the First Amendment to destroy government regulation.
Posted inGovernment, January/February 2014, Magazine
Smokey and the Bandit
How a secret government sweetheart deal for Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder wrecked a great park ranger’s career.
Posted inEducation, January/February 2014, K-12, Magazine
Class Conscious
How high schools condition students to accept their lot.
Posted inBooks, Economy, January/February 2014, Magazine
A Middle Course for the Middle Kingdom?
Competition with China really isn’t a zero-sum game. So why does it feel that way?
Posted inBooks, January/February 2014, Magazine, Politics
Letters from Camelot
Even in his private correspondence, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was an unapologetic Kennedy partisan.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, January/February 2014, Magazine
Dial-up Degrees
How a low-quality online college is helping poor students in Haiti and beyond.
Posted inEconomy, January/February 2014, Magazine
How the West Was Reinvented
Nudged by Bill Clinton, an economy based more on recreation than extraction is transforming the rural West.
