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Adam Smith
September 10, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Awful Arlington Scandal Takes Its Most Disturbing Turn Yet
House Democrats are trying to get to the bottom of the still-murky cemetery story. Is Trump going to get away with it again?
July 8, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The Latest Top Democrats Urging Biden to Withdraw Will Surprise You
More Democrats are starting to pull their support from the beleaguered president.
February 27, 2023
MagazineKim Phillips-Fein
The Betrayal of Adam Smith
How conservatives made him their icon and distorted his ideas
October 3, 2022
Timothy Noah
California’s Tough New Fast Food Wage Law Is Exactly What Business Deserves
The private-sector solution—unionization—is usually preferable to regulation. But the business lobby hates unions more than big government.
April 20, 2022
MagazineWin McCormack
Democracy May Be in Danger
But the future could belong to us.
September 1, 2021
Grace Segers
Washington’s Addiction to Defense Spending Will Outlast Afghanistan
The House Armed Services Committee is marking up the latest NDAA, which will be packed with more than $700 billion in new spending.
December 28, 2020
MagazineAlexander Zaitchik
The Urgent Case for Shrinking the Economy
Endless growth is destroying the planet. We know how to stop it.
March 9, 2018
Eve Fairbanks
Buying In: How the Language of the Market Has Warped American Politics
Marco Rubio’s response to the Parkland shooting reveals the ways in which the selling of ideas has superseded the ideas themselves.
May 21, 2014
Brian Beutler
Democrats to Participate in GOP Benghazi Committee—Here's Why it's a Big Mistake
July 17, 2013
Peter Berkowitz
From the Stacks: “Money and Love”
October 1, 2001
October 5, 2012
Oren Harman
Does Biology Make us Liars?
August 2, 2012
Amartya Sen
What Happened to Europe?
May 18, 2012
Michael Ignatieff
The Price of Everything
March 16, 2012
Jonathan Rothwell
Global Innovation: The Metropolitan Edition
February 24, 2012
Jared Bernstein
Former Obama Official: Why I Applaud ‘Occupy the SEC’
January 11, 2012
Philip Kitcher
The Lure of the Peak
December 14, 2011
Amartya Sen
The Boundaries of Justice
May 19, 2011
Tim Wu
The Love of Monopoly
March 2, 2011
Alan Wolfe
Studies Show
November 4, 2010
Jonathan Chait
Lincoln And Adam Smith Versus Limbaugh

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