Our China Policy Makes No Sense
Vol.
No.
26
4
Fall 2015
Columns
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The European Prospect
With all the pathologies of the 1930s resurgent, Europe's experiment in economic and social union has never been more at risk. -
The Politics of Frustration
Voters on both sides of the partisan divide are being driven toward radical make-believe
Notebook
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Employer Political Coercion: A Growing Threat
Since Citizens United, companies can legally require workers to participate in politics—and fire them if they refuse. -
55-45 Politics in a 50-50 Country
Republicans start every election cycle with structural advantages regardless of the issues and all the other factors that usually determine who wins elections.
Culture
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A Caricature of Black Reality
Ta-Nehisi Coates has written the race book of the year. Too bad it’s disempowering. -
It's Still a Struggle
The fight for voting rights hasn’t been the straightforward battle we once might have expected to win and be done with. -
Security for a Precarious Workforce
What will it take, economically and politically, to broadly regularize employment? -
A Government Both More Secretive and More Open
The same decades that saw the growth of national-security secrecy saw the rise of the public’s “right to know.” -
The Shame of Tax Havens
Taxes evaded in offshore havens could fund a lot of public services.
Features
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Our Incoherent China Policy
The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership is bad economics, and even worse as containment of China. -
Bronx Cheer
The New York borough that once symbolized urban decline is safer and more stable—but most Bronxites' lives are still precarious. -
Eight Principles for Reforming Solitary Confinement
How we can reduce, make more humane, and ultimately eliminate a practice that, in Justice Kennedy's words, drives prisoners "to the edge of madness" -
Hedge Funds: The Ultimate Absentee Landlords
How Wall Street capitalized on the foreclosure crisis to become the nation's largest owner of single-family homes. -
The New Public Option
Despite hostile courts, can our campaign-finance system be reformed from the bottom up? -
Pushing Civic Tech Beyond Its Comfort Zone
By all means, let's use technology to improve government services. But the real promise is greater political accountability. -
The Unsavory Side of Airbnb
How the popular matching company facilitates landlord conversion of entire rental buildings to de facto hotels. -
Unfriendly Fire
Despite ideological attacks and under-funding, the Veterans Health Administration is a model public system. -
Bring Back Antitrust
Despite low inflation and some bargain prices, economic concentration and novel abuses of market power are pervasive in today's economy—harming consumers, workers, and innovators. We need a new antitrust for a new predatory era. -
Still We Rise
The continuing case for America's historically black colleges and universities.
