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Privatization
May 20, 2022
Magazine
Win McCormack
In Search of the Common Good
You won’t find it in the tenets of neoliberalism.
April 1, 2022
Magazine
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
Don’t Privatize Water
The case for keeping public goods under democratic control
December 27, 2021
Nick Tabor
Is New Orleans Trading Internet Access for Corporate Surveillance?
The city’s plan to use smart streetlights to deliver free WiFi is causing alarm about who will own New Orleanians’s data.
December 22, 2020
Magazine
Maria Bustillos
Billion-Dollar Book Companies Are Ripping Off Public Schools
They’ve always overcharged for books. Now they’re demanding obscene costs for e-books.
December 3, 2020
Magazine
Clive Thompson
Monetizing the Final Frontier
The strange new push for space privatization
August 6, 2020
Casey Taylor
Death by a Thousand Cuts for One of America’s Last Great Institutions
Mail carriers tell the story of how the destruction of the U.S. Postal Service would mean the end of a connected country.
August 4, 2020
Jo Livingstone
The New Aristocracy Discovers “Microschools”
Introducing the newest, oldest way to engineer a feckless elite
September 25, 2018
Christopher Ketcham
What the Public Lands Are Truly Worth
A new book argues that America's forests and streams provide far more value than they cost to support.
February 24, 2017
Magazine
Kim Phillips-Fein
Trump’s Big Agenda
Reagan started it. Bush expanded it. Now conservatives are poised to privatize everything in sight.
December 9, 2016
Brian Beutler
Trump’s Distractions Will Provide Republican Cover to Rip Apart the Safety Net
August 25, 2016
John Freemuth
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William Lowry
Don’t Privatize National Parks
These public lands belong to everyone—and they should stay that way.
August 24, 2016
David Dayen
Will America Finally Stop Privatizing Everything?
The Justice Department’s decision to shut down private prisons could signal the end of an era.
March 16, 2015
Brian Beutler
Republicans Can Kiss Medicare Privatization Goodbye
October 24, 2014
Brian Beutler
Watch Mitch McConnell Dodge a Simple Question About His Senate Agenda
July 16, 2014
Brian Beutler
Paul Ryan Is Still Selling His Rejected Agenda, Now With Populist Rhetoric
June 2, 2014
Brian Beutler
The GOP's Veterans Health Care Trap
How politicking the VA scandal without a plan to improve care could backfire
May 22, 2014
Brian Beutler
The Republican Party Has a VA Problem, Too: Privatization Isn't Popular
March 10, 2014
Alec MacGillis
The Postal Service Outsources Itself to a Company Doing Almost as Badly as the Postal Service
March 27, 1944
Langston Hughes
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