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The Monopolized Economy
January/February/March 2025 Print Edition
January/February/March 2025
In this issue
Medicare Prices for All
Want a real raise? Slash health care costs by tying employer plans to Medicare rates.
Make Employers Secure the Border
When Trump’s cruel treatment of immigration backfires—and it will—liberals need a more humane alternative. Here’s one: tough restraints on companies that hire undocumented migrants combined with generous opportunities for those migrants to become legal.
Open a New Front for Racial Justice
The decades-long effort to push elite colleges to be more diverse has failed. Here’s a better strategy: demand more support for the underfunded colleges that already graduate most Black and Hispanic students, and plenty of white students as well.
Champion the Self-Employed
Gig workers, contractors, and micro business owners are America’s fastest-growing workforce. Both parties have ignored their plight. Democrats need to offer them portable benefits and protections from monopoly corporations that crush them.
Podcast
- Pete Hegseth and the Conservative Assault on Veterans' Healthcare 22:28
- Born in America but not a Citizen? The Looming Threat to Birthright Citizenship 24:10
- Trump's dangerous plan for recess appointments 34:30
Education
Books
In Sherman’s Wake
The hidden story of enslaved Georgians who, however briefly, seized freedom during the Union general’s famous march to the sea.
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