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Libertarians and the Emergence of the “Virginia Plan” of Private Segregation Academies
What does modern school privatization owe to Virginia’s fight against desegregation? A little-known history traces how segregationists and emerging libertarian ideas converged around publicly funded private schools, creating a political and intellectual blueprint with consequences far beyond the 1950s.
The AI Boom Runs on an Even More Dangerous Machine (Part 1)
AI is powered by more than algorithms – underneath is a flawed, decades-old corporate operating system that redirects gains away from workers. The good news: It doesn’t have to be this way. Part of “AI and the Future of the American Worker,” a series on how artificial intelligence is impacting labor, power, and the meaning of work.
To Fix Health Care, Treat It as a System: Memorandum to Senator Ronald Wyden and Democratic Members of the Senate Finance Committee
Senate Finance Committee Democrats are seeking evidence and proposals to shape health-care legislation. Their critique of insurers has merit, but reforms confined to insurance risk leaving hospitals, conglomerates, and much of the system’s extraction untouched, sets the stage for further disappointment.
Are We Reforming Global Health or Washing Our Hands Of It?
Global health financing is collapsing just as demands on health systems are rising. As funding retreats and reform debates intensify, a deeper question emerges about who bears the costs, and whether today’s fixes risk creating lasting damage that will be difficult to reverse.
Why Public Policy’s Core Value Should Be Equality
Equality runs deeper than economics textbooks or policy fashions suggest. Across disciplines, evidence increasingly links more equal societies to stronger well-being, greater social trust, and healthier democracies, challenging the assumption that fairness must come at the expense of prosperity or economic dynamism.
Is That New Procedure Proven? MedTech Billing Codes and Evidence-Based Medicine
Introduced by the AMA in 2001, Category III CPT codes aimed to streamline financial reporting. Instead they became entangled in a politically driven, zero-sum reimbursement game.
From Fed Failures to Inflation and Stablecoins: America’s Trust Is Cracking
Authors Bill Bergman and Larry Feltes argue that declining public confidence in government and financial institutions is putting the U.S. economy in peril — and a crisis could come faster than you think.
Education of a Grandmaster
The U.S. Is Betting the Economy on ‘Scaling’ AI: Where Is the Intelligence When One Needs It?
Storm argues the AI data-centre investment boom is creating a bubble that will be socially and financially expensive when it pops.
5 Lessons from the End of the Larry Summers Era
Summers’ influence was immense, but so were his blind spots. It’s time for economics that values people and the planet over power and prestige.
The Hidden History Fueling Tariffs, Shutdowns, and National Breakdown
From political slugfests to classroom battles, historian Marc Egnal talks with INET’s Lynn Parramore about the need for a new approach to our national story.