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Feature
Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Big Fight’ Against Monopolies
Warren speaks to
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about power, markets, and breaking up corporate giants.
George Zornick
Does Monopoly Power Explain Workers’ Stagnant Wages?
As industries get more concentrated, workers have fewer employment options—and less leverage to get a raise.
Bryce Covert
Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market—It Wants to Become the Market
The company is a radically new kind of monopoly with ambitions that dwarf those of earlier empires.
Stacy Mitchell
Special Investigation: The Dirty Secret Behind Warren Buffett’s Billions
America’s favorite investor loves monopoly, not free markets.
David Dayen
Editorial
Meet the World’s Most Feared Antitrust Enforcer
Margrethe Vestager, the EU commissioner for competition, discusses leveling the economic playing field.
Mike Konczal
How Monopolies Gamed the System
And why we need to change the rules—again.
The Nation
Mike Pence and Japanese Leader Shinzo Abe Rain on South Korea’s Olympics Parade
But the pressure could backfire, a former Japanese prime minister tells
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.
Tim Shorrock
Comix Nation
Matt Bors
The Real Reason Workers Can’t Get A Raise
A preemptive war on inflation will tamp down any real wage growth.
Robert L. Borosage
By the Numbers: The Rise of Monopolies
Industry consolidation has squashed competition and created huge profits for a tiny elite.
Emmalina Glinskis
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Column
What We Talk About When We Talk About Immigration
Donald Trump is changing the terms of the debate. How should progressives respond?
Laila Lalami
It’s the End of the World Desk as We Know It
And with so much focus on Trump, foreign reporting will not be fine.
Eric Alterman
Trump on Domestic Violence
Calvin Trillin
Books & the Arts
What Axes Are Good For
Brad Trumpfheller
Life Among the Bundists
Through his family history, Mark Mazower maps the upheavals and dislocations of early 20th-century Europe and Russia.
Sheila Fitzpatrick
The Rise and Fall of Clintonism
What two recent books on Bill and Hillary tell us about the political and economic costs of the New Democrats.
Ryan Cooper
TV’s Dystopia Boom
The nightmarish future ain’t what it used to be.
Evan Kindley
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Letters
Letters From the March 12, 2018, Issue
The art of nonviolence… California dreaming… In defense of male feminists… The president cuts a rug… What this country needs… Charles Murray, creationist… We’re with Kap… About time… Missed opportunity…
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Puzzle No. 3457
Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
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