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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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America’s Real Health Crisis? Economics — and a Generation Pays

Feb 9, 2026

Health researcher Steven H. Woolf tells INET’s Lynn Parramore why making Americans healthy again means economic policies that help working- and middle-class families. Raw raw milk won’t cut it, and even being rich won’t save you. *This is Part 2 of the interview; Part 1 is here.

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AI, Antitrust, and the Future of the Marketplace of Ideas

Nov 17, 2025

AI was sold as a tool to broaden the marketplace of ideas. Instead, a handful of platforms now control how truth travels, shaping what we see, starving journalism, and locking new AI rivals out of the data democracy needs to survive.

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Red Tech and American Politics: Nick French Interviews Thomas Ferguson

Nov 11, 2025

Venture-backed “tech capital” is reshaping U.S. politics through campaign finance, platform gatekeeping, defense/AI procurement, and policy entrepreneurship. In an interview with Nick French, INET’s Research Director Thomas Ferguson discusses these channels of influence, examining their macro-distributional consequences, and outlining guardrails to restore democratic accountability and broadly shared gains.