Gar Alperovitz

Gar Alperovitz, author of What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution, is co-founder of The Democracy Collaborative and co-chair of its Next System Project. He is also the author of two major studies of the Hiroshima decision: Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam and The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb.

Climate Change April 26, 2017

The Policy Weapon Climate Activists Need

Government can save the climate from burning the same way it saved the economy from depression: Buy out the companies behind the crisis.

Gar Alperovitz , Joe Guinan and Thomas M. Hanna
States November 29, 2016

‘All Resistance Is Local’: A Plan of Progressive Action for the Trump Years

Here’s how states and cities can lead the fight against the Trump administration—and build a new political order.

Heather Gerken , David Bollier , Gary Gerstle and Gar Alperovitz
Activism February 11, 2016

Socialism in America Is Closer Than You Think

Experiments with public ownership are thriving across the country. The challenge is to link them and scale them up.

Gar Alperovitz
Foreign Policy August 6, 2015

The War Was Won Before Hiroshima—And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It

Seventy years after the bombing, will Americans face the brutal truth?

Gar Alperovitz
Activism October 9, 2013

How to Democratize the US Economy

A long-term plan to renovate the American dream begins at the local level and scales up.

Gar Alperovitz
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Economic Policy May 22, 2012

Beyond Corporate Capitalism: Not So Wild a Dream

Hey, look it over—public ownership is the most effective way to fix America’s economy.

Gar Alperovitz and Thomas M. Hanna
Activism May 25, 2011

The New-Economy Movement

A growing group of activists and socially responsible companies are rethinking business as usual.

Gar Alperovitz
Cities February 11, 2010

The Cleveland Model

Thoroughly green and worker-owned, co-ops are a vibrant response to economic distress.

Gar Alperovitz , Thad Williamson and Ted Howard
Education January 4, 2006

A ‘Top Ten’ List of Bold Ideas

To take back the nation in the post-Bush era, start thinking now about some bold but plausible progressive reforms, from universal health insurance to free daycare and a shorter work week.

Gar Alperovitz and Thad Williamson
Economic Policy June 9, 2005

The New Ownership Society

Progressives should redefine what constitutes an ownership society.

Gar Alperovitz

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Gar Alperovitz

Climate Change April 26, 2017

Government can save the climate from burning the same way it saved the economy from depression: Buy out the companies behind the crisis.

States November 29, 2016

Here’s how states and cities can lead the fight against the Trump administration—and build a new political order.

Activism February 11, 2016

Experiments with public ownership are thriving across the country. The challenge is to link them and scale them up.

Foreign Policy August 6, 2015

Seventy years after the bombing, will Americans face the brutal truth?

Activism October 9, 2013

A long-term plan to renovate the American dream begins at the local level and scales up.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

Economic Policy May 22, 2012

Hey, look it over—public ownership is the most effective way to fix America’s economy.

Activism May 25, 2011

A growing group of activists and socially responsible companies are rethinking business as usual.

Cities February 11, 2010

Thoroughly green and worker-owned, co-ops are a vibrant response to economic distress.

Education January 4, 2006

To take back the nation in the post-Bush era, start thinking now about some bold but plausible progressive reforms, from universal health insurance to free daycare and a shorter work week.

Economic Policy June 9, 2005

Progressives should redefine what constitutes an ownership society.