Podcast

How to Save Capitalism

by Anne Kim May 20, 2026May 19, 2026

Nick Hanauer and Eric Beinhocker have a plan for fixing capitalism: “market humanism.”

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The Capitalists Trying to Fix Capitalism

by Anne Kim May 17, 2026May 16, 2026

Power Concentrated: A data center owned by Amazon Web Services under construction next to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Berwick, Pa., Jan. 14, 2025.

Economy

The Dangers of AI and Extreme Wealth Inequality

by David Atkins January 5, 2026January 5, 2026

Featured, Political Animal, Politics

The Collapse of Europe’s Super League Is a Serious Progressive Victory

by Daniel Block April 22, 2021January 9, 2022

Political Animal

Trump Is the Poster Child For Why Capitalism Needs to Be Modulated

by Nancy LeTourneau February 20, 2019January 9, 2022

Republican National Convention, July 21, 2016

Magazine

How Capitalism Lost Its Way

by Haley Sweetland Edwards October 28, 2018February 15, 2023

Political Animal

Senator Warren Is Demonstrating How to Make Capitalism Work

by Nancy LeTourneau August 29, 2018January 9, 2022

April/May/June 2018, Magazine

The Libertarian Who Accidentally Helped Make the Case for Regulation

by Rachel Cohen April 8, 2018January 9, 2022

Books, June/July/August 2017, Magazine

Mutually Assured Resentment

by Daniel Oppenheimer June 11, 2017January 9, 2022

Magazine

Paradigm Lost

by Nicholas Lemann April 1, 1991May 2, 2023

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How to Save Capitalism

The Dangers of AI and Extreme Wealth Inequality

The Collapse of Europe’s Super League Is a Serious Progressive Victory

Trump Is the Poster Child For Why Capitalism Needs to Be Modulated

How Capitalism Lost Its Way

Senator Warren Is Demonstrating How to Make Capitalism Work

The Libertarian Who Accidentally Helped Make the Case for Regulation

Mutually Assured Resentment

Paradigm Lost

The Red Undertow in the Midterms

Why Won’t the Clean Energy Industry Play Dirty?

This Is the Biggest Reason Why a Blue Wave Is Probably Coming

Many Health Care Grad Students Can’t Get the Loans They Need

The Unitary Executive Theory in All of Its Historical Perversity

The Secret Monopoly Making Everything More Expensive