Trumpism—whether or not it morphs into a new form, with a new leadership or strategy—is something we still don’t understand properly. The outcome of this election shows we have a lot more work to do to ensure the Trumpers don’t have a continuing path forward.
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The 2020 poll by YouGov for The Democracy Collaborative shows broad support for innovative policies that lead to a reparative and sustainable economy in which wealth and power are shared broadly.
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To avoid the catastrophic effects on our health and our economy of hollowing out our primary care system, the U.S. should create a national program for universal public primary care.
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Public pharmaceutical enterprises are free from the constraints of profit maximization and can define their bottom line based on such values as their contributions to public health and local economic resiliency.
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The Democracy Collaborative moderated a panel at Netroots Nation 2020 featuring three leaders of grassroots campaigns designed to advance public ownership in banking, energy and housing.
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In his new white paper, “Biomed Europa: after the coronavirus, a public infrastructure to overcome the pharmaceutical oligopoly,” Italian economist Massimo Florio proposes an international, transparent, public phar
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by Dana Brown, Alex Lawson, Christopher Morten, Fran Quigley
Now is the time to redesign our medicines system around open science practices, full-cycle public pharmaceutical production, compulsory licensing, and public ownership of the vaccine industry.
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One way to defund and demilitarize police departments is to end the federal law known as Section 1033, which enables the transfer of military equipment—weapons of war—to local police departments that have used them against Black Lives Matter protesters.
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As the COVID-19 crisis continues to unfold in the US through the summer of 2020, evidence mounts that the pandemic has become an extinction event for small businesses.
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