November/December 2015

America’s Forgotten Formula for Economic Equality

by Paul Glastris

A signature moment in the first Democratic presidential debate was when CNN moderator Anderson Cooper asked Bernie Sanders how he could hope to win the general election as an avowed “democratic socialist.” The Vermont senator had a ready answer. Being a democratic socialist, he said, is about “saying that it is immoral and wrong” that… Read more »

The Second Racial Wealth Gap

by Mel Jones

White Millennials can often rely on their parents for financial assistance. For many black and Hispanic Millennials it’s the other way around.

One-Party Fate

by Nancy LeTourneau

America’s potential is far greater than most of us realize. But with the GOP in turmoil, it’s up to Democrats to produce the reform agenda that can unleash it.

The Invisible Scam

by Victoria Finkle

What if corporate deceptions, like Volkswagen’s rigged emissions testing, are not aberrations from, but consequences of, the free market system?

Federal Reserved

by Ryan Cooper

With a still-weak economy seven years after the 2008 crisis, it’s worth thinking about whether we might be stuck with a twentieth-century central bank in a twenty-first-century world.

First We Take Manhattan

by Shannon Brownlee

New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s public health G-men got smoking out of restaurants, trans fats out of foods, and calorie counts onto menus. The rest of the country soon followed.

Drive By

by Matt Connolly

How companies like Uber work around regulations, avoid paying taxes, and shaft their workers.

Secrets of the Chamber

by Lee Drutman

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce exaggerates the dangers of government action to its corporate paymasters and gets paid handsomely, whether it wins or not.