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Cheap Clothes, High Costs: Individual Choices Can’t Thread the Needle on Fast Fashion
We’re on the heels of New York Fashion Week—a display of the latest fashion trends that can travel from the runway to outlet malls in the blink of a…
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Sunny Malhotra
Withholding for Billionaires: The Case for a Billionaire Minimum Tax
Most Americans believe that the rich do not pay their fair share in taxes. In fact, more Americans are concerned that the rich are paying too little in…
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Elizabeth Pancotti
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Michael Linden

August 2024

What Coach Walz’s Minnesota Playbook Can Teach Us
Over the last four years, the Biden-Harris administration has made tremendous progress on many of the pressing crises facing our nation. But much…
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Suzanne Kahn
Economic Ideas: The Key to Long-Term Democratic Unity
Now is the time to focus not only on ideas, but also on strategy—organizing and building the kinds of alliances that can develop into robust networks…
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Felicia Wong
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The Roberts Court’s Backdoor Attack on Governing Capacity
Earlier this summer, the Supreme Court capped off another enormously consequential term with a barrage of decisions that could dramatically remake our…
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Sabeel Rahman
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Stopping SCOTUS’s Death Grip on Our Democracy
Last week, President Biden publicly announced his proposals for Supreme Court reform. Though late to the party, the initiative importantly signals a…
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Shahrzad Shams
“Bored of Banks” Is Not an Option
Strong and effective financial regulation is indispensable to a stable and fair financial system—and an economy—that people can trust. Without good…
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Graham Steele
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July 2024

It’s the Economy, Brats
With the FTC rule banning noncompetes, the agency has set in motion what could be an antitrust revolution on par with the reactionary reinterpretation…
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Elizabeth Pancotti
An Antitrust Revolution: Why the FTC’s Renewed Focus on Coercion and Exploitation Matters
With the FTC rule banning noncompetes, the agency has set in motion what could be an antitrust revolution on par with the reactionary reinterpretation…
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Sandeep Vaheesan
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Brian Callaci
The $400,000 Question: Why the Administration’s Tax Pledge Makes Sense
At the end of next year, vast swaths of the Trump-era tax cuts will expire. This impending expiration sets up a major legislative debate—and a…
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Michael Linden

June 2024

Caring about Care: Why an Industrial Strategy for Care Makes Sense in Any Economy
The fact that a more robust care work industrial policy would create new jobs in our economy is helpful politically and psychologically. But investments…
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Suzanne Kahn
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Hannah Groch-Begley
, and 
Elizabeth Pancotti
They Can't Keep Getting Away with This: A Second Chance at Mercedes
The Mercedes losses this May were not inevitable; rather, they were made possible by what politicians, policymakers, and even unions themselves have…
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Diana Reddy
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Seth Harris
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