On January 12, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that the consumer price index rose 7 percent in the 12 months ending December 2021, following increases of 6.2 and 6.8 percent in October ...

The utility companies’ ploys to avoid regulation and thwart public power turn out to be as old as the industry itself.

Wall Street has always faced pressure for change after its misdeeds bring the financial system and the broader economy to the precipice—or over it. But our success in securing durable change has ...

She writes far less about the political influence of the equality haters than about their ability to gain headlines and write ...

Director of Public Options and Governance at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator. She has previously served in government at the Department of Defense, U.S. Export-Import Bank, U.S. Senate, and U.S.

Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project and former chairman of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.

Senior Fellow for Antimonopoly and Finance at Demand Progress. He also writes an occasional newsletter, “The Money Trust.” ...

Institute for Local Self-Reliance. He writes about monopoly power for The Nation, The American Prospect, The Washington Monthly, and other publications, and is the author of the “Who Shall Rule” ...

While some notable economists have challenged this hypothesis or pointed to a lack of hard evidence of AI-induced job loss so ...

Historically, Washington’s primary approach to improving literacy has been grantmaking. Congress appropriates money. The Department of Education launches a new initiative with a name like Reading ...

Few people have been untouched by the troubling and enduring youth mental health crisis. Already significant before the COVID ...

If your house crumbles in a storm, your first instinct probably goes something like this: Rebuild your house exactly as it ...