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

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

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

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” ...

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

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

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

Our schools are weakest in their joints—those points where students pass from one school to the next. Students can pass every ...

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

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 ...

We are in an era of massive disruption. Artificial intelligence is triggering seismic shifts in virtually every aspect of society. The affordability crisis is squeezing working- and middle-class ...

Is educational achievement primarily the result of strong schools, or strong families? The pendulum on this question has ...