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Jan 5, 2025 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Phillip Longman
This article is from a cover package of essays entitled Ten New Ideas for the Democratic Party to Help the Working Class, and Itself. Find the full series here. According to exit polls, the top reason voters gave for not supporting Kamala Harris was inflation. Yet by the time of the election, official measures showed that inflation had moderated to historical norms. Meanwhile, other conventional economic indicators showed that wages had been rising far faster than prices for the previous two years.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Paul Glastris |Phillip Longman |Bill Scher |Will Norris
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Phillip Longman
This article is from a cover package of essays entitled Ten New Ideas for the Democratic Party to Help the Working Class, and Itself. Find the full series here. Donald Trump has vowed to pursue sweeping deregulation of the economy in his second term. He has also called for elimination of at least one federal agency—the Department of Education—and set Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to work deconstructing the remaining administrative state.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Phillip Longman
In 2012, a diminutive, whip-smart, newly minted college graduate named Lina Kahn was trying to find a home for the serious policy journalism she aspired to produce. Impressed by her research on the airline industry, I proposed that we co-write a piece for the Washington Monthly.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Phillip Longman
For all our differences, Americans are remarkably united on one key point. Partisan Democrats and Republicans, business and labor leaders, and just about all the folks sitting in think tanks or on barstools across this great land agree that we must start making more stuff in America. President Donald Trump, of course, pursued this goal primarily by imposing tariffs and ran for a second term promising to impose far more.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Phillip Longman
As Kamala Harris campaigns for president, one of her challenges is the economic record of the administration she still serves. Of course, she can point out that we have the strongest economy in decades, seen in metrics such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, GDP growth, and jobs paying a living wage.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
theatlantic.com | Phillip Longman
Read one way, the decision this week by a federal judge to block JetBlue’s acquisition of Spirit Airlines is a milestone in the effort to revive American antitrust law. President Joe Biden has made competition enforcement a central part of his economic policy, and the JetBlue ruling marks the first time that federal regulators have ever won a lawsuit to stop a major U.S. airline merger. In his opinion, William G.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Phillip Longman
“Hey Journalists, Nobody Is Coming to Save Us.” So reads the headline of a recent opinion piece in Nieman Reports, a venerable publication affiliated with Harvard University that describes itself as “covering thought leadership in journalism.” Just within the past year, the article reports, major layoffs and buyouts have occurred in every type of media organization under every form of ownership and business model.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Gabby Birenbaum |Phillip Longman |Eric Cortellessa
The collapse of the news industry is not an inevitable consequence of technology or market forces. It’s the result of policy mistakes over the past 40 years that the Biden administration is already taking measures to fix.
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Aug 27, 2023 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Phillip Longman
In 2018, Patrick Deneen, a professor of political science at Notre Dame, published a book entitled Why Liberalism Failed. Many liberals, most notably The American Prospect’s Robert Kuttner, wrote scathing condemnations. Gabby Birenbaum and I added to the criticism last year, observing in these pages how Deneen’s conflation of liberalism with libertinism had deeply influenced Tucker Carlson and his fellow travelers.
