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Jan 9, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Will Norris
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. Source link
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Paul Glastris |Phillip Longman |Bill Scher |Will Norris
Posted inJanuary/February/March 2025 The January/February/March issue is here.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Will Norris
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. Perhaps the largest group of Americans who have no home in the political status quo are the self-employed. According to the U.S. Census, this demographic includes 16.5 million workers, or about 10.4 percent of the total working population.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Will Norris
Imagine the media as a grand, lumbering ship from a Patrick O’Brian novel. The Washington Monthly is the lookout perched high in the crow’s nest, peering over the horizon. Time and again, for 55 years, the Monthly has spotted issues years before they become mainstream stories, such as how the overweening power of monopolistic corporations threatened global supply chains, how prestigious colleges were undermining social mobility, and how reckless financiers were creating a housing bubble.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Will Norris
On the campaign trail in 2016, Donald Trump cast himself as a populist taking on the political and corporate establishment. His criticism of corporate mergers and his promises to protect consumers from monopolies were central to his anti-establishment message. Amazon, he said, had “a huge antitrust problem.” Pharmaceutical companies charging inflated prices for prescription drugs were “getting away with murder.” AT&T’s plans to acquire Time Warner, Inc.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
santaclaritamagazine.com | Will Norris
Reiki is a transformative healing therapy that promotes deep relaxation and restores harmony within the body’s energy system. Rooted in the belief that energy flows through us and affects our physical, mental, and spiritual health, Reiki serves as a holistic approach to well-being. By channeling this energy, Reiki encourages the body’s natural healing processes, helping to alleviate stress, anxiety, and physical discomfort.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
santaclaritamagazine.com | Will Norris
Life is sometimes stressful. Times can be tough. Obstacles present themselves. Your body and spirit respond to these environments. Muscles clench and knot. Energy fractures and splits. You’re looking for a massage to relieve that pain in your back, but what you really need is Bodywork and Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy. You need to heal on a physical, mental and spiritual level. Here is a testimonial for Katie W.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Will Norris
Donald Trump vows to root out the uncooperative public servants who constrained his first term and replace them with loyalists. “Either the deep state destroys America, or we destroy the deep state,” he told rallygoers in March last year. Bringing the sprawling federal bureaucracy to heel is necessary if he’s to realize his agenda: shutting down the southern border, building “vast holding facilities” for migrants facing deportation, and prosecuting his political enemies.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Will Norris
Click here for the Monthly‘s Presidential Accomplishment Index and more essays comparing Trump and Biden’s achievements in office. In the months before the 2016 election, corporate concentration broke through as a salient issue in Washington for the first time in decades.
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Oct 29, 2023 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Will Norris
In the early summer of 2023, a consensus about President Joe Biden’s revival of antitrust enforcement took hold in the media: It had flopped. After the Federal Trade Commission, led by Lina Khan, failed in its attempts to stop two high-profile mergers—Meta’s acquisition of the virtual reality firm Within and Microsoft’s acquisition of the video game company Activision Blizzard—the obituaries poured in. “Joe Biden’s trustbusters have fallen short of their ambitions,” The Economist declared.
