March 12, 2018, Issue

Feature

Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Big Fight’ Against Monopolies

Warren speaks to The Nation 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 The Nation.
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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