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Beyond The Ballot: Building The Movement Democrats Won’t

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The MAGA movement has preyed on the economic decay and social malaise plaguing America’s neighborhoods, offering a suite of real and imagined villains to drive Trump’s ascension. The left must get back to basics, rebuilding the trust lost by the Democratic Party through genuine community building and connection across difference.
Symposium

A Dialysis Duopoly: How Public Funding Entrenched Private Power

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For the half-million people in the U.S. with kidney failure, survival rests in the hands of two powerful corporations — DaVita and Fresenius — that control over 70% of the outpatient dialysis market. But the history of dialysis isn’t a simple narrative of corporate consolidation; it’s a case study of how public funding can entrench private power. . .
Symposium

State Efforts to Rein in Corporate Medicine

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Private equity firms are acquiring dominant shares of physician practices, creating conflicts between shareholder value and physicians’ professional and ethical duties. While longstanding state laws that prohibit lay ownership of medical practices have been under-enforced and evaded, recent litigation and legislative proposals suggest they could be. . .
Symposium

Consolidating Care: A Symposium on Medicine and Market Power

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From the dialysis market to the pharmaceutical industry, health care is seeing growing consolidation and corporatization. Over the next month, this symposium will explore the financialization of various health care industries and begin to sketch the contours of a progressive pushback—how law, policy, and regulatory action can help erect guardrails to. . .
Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: June 27

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Ilias Alami on the new state capitalism, Sabeel Rahman on anti-domination and the administrative state, and Jonathan Glater on Students for Fair Admissions. Plus, Jacob Hacker and Patrick Sullivan on the lowlights of the Republican budget reconciliation bill, Adam Bonica on the war between the Supreme Court and the rest of the judiciary, Alyssa Battistoni on. . .
Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: June 20

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William Boyd on the history and future of renewable energy ownership, Renee Tapp on the affordable housing crisis as an antitrust issue, and Nathan Schneider on building collective worker power in the tech industry. Plus, an upcoming event on DOGE and austerity, Lenore Palladino and Harrison Karlewicz on the risk of private credit funds, David Super on. . .
Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup: June 13

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Shelley Welton discusses the political hurdles facing modern public power movements, and Jed Britton-Purdy interviews Shitong Qiao about neighborhood democratization in urban China. Plus, a save the date for the inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy conference, the first LPE NYC happy hour of the summer, an upcoming ACS panel on building worker. . .