Unchecked corporate power is fueling inflation.
July/August 2022
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No Way to Build a Railroad
Maryland’s outgoing GOP Governor Larry Hogan is eyeing a 2024 run for president. He is also leaving behind a mass transit mess.
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Jeff Bezos’s Next Monopoly: The Press
With his vast investment in The Washington Post’s digital publishing technology, the Amazon founder could soon control the backbone of most large American newspapers.
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Limitations of Statute
The conservative Supreme Court is poised to dismantle the regulatory state. Representative Pramila Jayapal is the lone liberal fighting back.
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Why We Need Speechwriters Who Look Like America
America’s first Black presidential speechwriter on how leaders can speak more effectively to a diversifying country.
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The AMA’s Dark Secret
Journalists aren’t allowed inside the supposedly public meetings where the American Medical Association
effectively decides (and ratchets up) health care prices.
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Cognitive Dissonance in America’s Dairy Land
Wisconsin farmers admire and depend on their undocumented Mexican laborers—and still vote for Trump.
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How Mitch McConnell Made the Senate Even Worse
Republican power grabs and hyper partisanship are just part of his grim reign as Senate Republican Leader.
