It’s not socialism. Public factories are an old American answer to monopoly profiteering. The Progressive Caucus wants to bring them back.
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Posted inBooks
The Cory Doctorow Doctrine
Why are big tech products getting worse and worse? The critic has some answers about the origins of “enshittification.”
Posted inMagazine
The Meager Agenda of Abundance Liberals
What the Democratic Party’s most buzzed-about policy movement gets right—and wrong.
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
As Election Day Approaches, Don’t Forget About the K Street Wolves
As Election Day Approaches, Don’t Forget About the K Street Wolves: The Wolves of K Street, the Spring hit from the Mullins Brothers, deserves a close read this summer as lobbyists salivate over the certainty of a new president this Autumn.
Posted inMagazine
Trump vs. Biden: Who Got More Done on Antitrust?
Biden made the fight against monopolies central to his economic strategy. Trump used it to reward his friends and punish his enemies.
Posted inJanuary/February/March 2024
How Fighting Monopoly Can Save Journalism
The collapse of the news industry is not an inevitable consequence of technology or market forces. It’s the result of policy mistakes over the past 40 years that the Biden administration is already taking measures to fix.
Posted inJuly/August 2023
Greenwashing Big Ag
A bipartisan law claiming to tackle greenhouse gas emissions instead just helps the agriculture industry launder its reputation.
Posted inJuly/August 2023
Home Is Where the Work Is
When I worked at the Washington Monthly in the 1980s, the most notable aspect of the office, aside from its shabbiness, was the almost total physical absence of the boss, founder and editor in chief Charles Peters. Pioneering in so many ways—his column, “Tilting at Windmills,” a collection of delightful, insightful, counter-conventional mini-essays, has often […]
Posted inMain
Everyday High Prices
For years, the only supermarket serving the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwest South Dakota was run-down and a threat to public health. Inspectors from the Indian Health Service repeatedly cited its distant corporate owners for food safety violations, such as mixing rotten hamburger with fresh meat and repackaging it for sale. So leaders of […]
Posted inMagazine
Manufacturing and Liberty
As Biden strives to break China’s hold on the West, it’s time to relearn America’s no chokepoint strategy.
