Private Equity's Potential Payday From Build Back Better: Hundreds of billions of dollars are scheduled for industries private equity dominates. Executive Editor David Dayen says that advocates want to make sure workers and families benefit, not financiers.
Helping the Powerless Build Power: Editor-at-Large Harold Meyerson speaks with Pablo Alvarado, the founder and co-executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. Here, Alvarado recounts his trajectory from El Salvador to organizing a group of laborers previously thought of as unorganizable.
Merrick Garland Is Failing His Biggest Test: Contributor Eleanor Eagan argues that, through either trepidation or cowardice, the Justice Department has shrunk from the onslaught of conservative legal opposition to the Biden agenda. Why Pfizer’s Friends Want Biden to Intervene
in Brazil: Contributor Sarah Lazare explains how the pharma giant is trying to squash a bill that would expand vaccine access.
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