A conversation with presidential biographers Jonathan Alter and Kai Bird.
November/December 2021
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Doctor Will Not See You Now
Primary care is a disaster. Consolidation is making it worse. And a revolution is coming.
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Biden’s Next Agenda: Anti-monopoly
How enhancing America’s antitrust regime is a winning issue for the administration—and the country.
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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.
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How to Make Power Less Corrupting
Post-Trump new ideas for keeping authoritarians out of the Oval Office—and the squad car.
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Why Daniel Boone Might Not be Canceled
The archetypal frontiersman was unsure about the colonial project he built.
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The Deal of a Convert
What public figures gain, or lose, when they switch religions.
