Finance industry recruiters are starving critical fields of talent and steering an entire generation into soulless jobs.
Magazine
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Who Needs College Anymore?
Kathleen deLaski asks that question in a new book that asks how to make higher ed not only more accessible but applicable to Americans’ real lives.
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The Meager Agenda of Abundance Liberals
What the Democratic Party’s most buzzed-about policy movement gets right—and wrong.
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How Khrushchev Underestimated Kennedy
A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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An Abundance of Ambiguity
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that a world of plenty awaits us if we reform zoning and environmental laws and everyone moves to San Francisco. But that can’t be the whole plan, right?
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A Tech Billionaire Attacks His Own Kind
Alex Karp, CEO of the digital military contractor Palantir, thinks other Silicon Valley behemoths waste their time chasing clicks rather than bad guys—and that the decline of college Western Civ classes is to blame.
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Why We Need a New Tennessee Valley Authority
In the 1930s, public power agencies like the TVA forced private utilities to electrify rural America. Today, the same strategy can challenge the investor-owned electric utilities that are blocking the spread of renewable energy.
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The Long Shadow of Robert Moses
How popular blowback to the New York City planner’s excesses led to generations of distrust in government.
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What The Washington Post Could Learn From Sports Illustrated
(And vice versa)
Posted inJanuary/February/March 2025
Ten New Ideas for the Democratic Party to Help the Working Class, and Itself.
The January/February/March issue is here.
