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Taking the Monopoly Threat Seriously
We associate Louis Brandeis most with Boston. The legendary Supreme Court justice attended law school at Harvard, opened his private practice on Devonshire Street, and had a college named for him in...
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Three Ways Democrats Can Fix the Farm Economy
The farm economy is in crisis, and Democrats will need to do something about it to have a chance at winning back the votes of rural America. Executing the three policy suggestions below may require...
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The Lab-Grown Meat Industry’s Problem With Regulation? There’s Not Enough.
We came up with the idea to use one feather, from the single best chicken we could find,” says the narrator of a video for Just, a Bay Area biotech company. Later, a handsome farmer pulls a white...
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Editor’s Note: Check Your Coastal Urban Privilege
It’s been three decades since Peggy McIntosh, a women’s studies scholar at Wellesley College, published her landmark essay, “White Privilege and Male Privilege.” In it, she observed that even her most...
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The Forgotten Lessons of LBJ’s Domestic Legacy
The first time I taught an undergrad American history survey course, I tried an experiment. Finding myself with extra room in the schedule, I slid a heading into the syllabus: “LBJ and the Great...
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The FTC Might Just Be Progressives’ Secret Weapon
It is by now widely acknowledged that the United States has a corporate concentration crisis. Sectors across the economy—from agriculture to airlines to online search to pharmaceuticals to...
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The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution
Tens of thousands of Londoners died of cholera from the 1830s to the 1860s. The causes were simple: mass quantities of human waste and industrial contaminants were pouring into the Thames, the central...
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The Democrats’ Pop-Up Foreign Policy Problem
Last March, three U.S. senators undertook a seemingly quixotic task. Democrat Chris Murphy, Independent Bernie Sanders, and Republican Mike Lee demanded a vote on their resolution calling for the U.S....
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To Take Back the Map, Democrats Need a Plan to Revive Heartland Cities
It had the trappings of a reality television show: 238 competitors from across the country, twenty finalists, but only one victor. (Or, as it turned out, two.) Bidders sent gifts ranging from cacti to...
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How to Close the Democrats’ Rural Gap
The midterm elections made two things very clear about Democratic voters in the Donald Trump era. First, they vastly outnumber Republican voters: Democrats gained control of the House of...
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