Personnel as Policy: What Biden’s Picks So Far Tell Us Personnel as Policy: What Biden’s Picks So Far Tell Us
For progressives, Biden’s nominees include the good, the bad—and the just plain ugly.
Dec 10, 2020 / Robert L. Borosage for The Nation
Are Bill Gates’s Billions Distorting Public Health Data? Are Bill Gates’s Billions Distorting Public Health Data?
Thanks to the Microsoft founder’s support, the IHME can make its own rules about how to track global health. That’s a problem.
Dec 3, 2020 / Feature / Tim Schwab
Privatizing Puerto Rico Privatizing Puerto Rico
The rushed sell-off of the territory’s electrical utility is part of a larger move to gut public goods for private profit.
Dec 1, 2020 / Feature / Ed Morales
How Monopolies Have Taken Over Our Everyday Lives How Monopolies Have Taken Over Our Everyday Lives
Once you put on your “monopoly decoder ring,” David Dayen writes in his new book, you start to see how monopolies influence almost every part of American society.
Nov 30, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Bryce Covert
Time for Democrats to Drain the Real Swamp Time for Democrats to Drain the Real Swamp
Trump’s kleptocracy cannot continue.
Nov 24, 2020 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Why Should the Covid Vaccine Manufacturers Keep All the Profits? Why Should the Covid Vaccine Manufacturers Keep All the Profits?
Gregg Gonsalves on virus profiteering, plus J. Hoberman on The Trial of the Chicago 7.
Nov 19, 2020 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Sherrod Brown: Covid Shows How Corporate ‘Free Trade’ Policies Threaten Public Health Sherrod Brown: Covid Shows How Corporate ‘Free Trade’ Policies Threaten Public Health
The Ohio senator proposes a radically different approach to trade policy. It starts with the word “public.”
Oct 29, 2020 / Q&A / John Nichols
Any True Recovery Must Include US Workers Any True Recovery Must Include US Workers
The pandemic has exacerbated the cruel inequities of the US economy.
Oct 27, 2020 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Want to Win Rural Voters? Fight Big Ag. Want to Win Rural Voters? Fight Big Ag.
Too many Democrats are missing on an issue fundamental to farmers: the consolidation of the agriculture sector.
Oct 27, 2020 / Brian Barth