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For most of my career as a journalist, I've covered the intersection
of economics, politics, and social justice. That means addressing what
it takes politically to produce a decent society by energizing democracy
to contain the rapacious aspects of raw capitalism. This takes me into
such broad areas as the rise and (one hopes) the fall of neoliberalism
and its handmaiden, orthodox economics; the corruption and (maybe) the
redemption of the Democratic Party; and various aspects of
globalization.

As an expression of these interests, I cover several beats for the

**Prospect**, including financial regulation, economic policy generally,
trade, as well as politics, ideology, and political power. I pretty much
hold down the

**Prospect** China desk. My latest book, Going Big
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on the surprising progressivism of the Biden administration and the
importance of keeping Biden on that course, a subject I've repeatedly
addressed in the

**Prospect**. I write some of these pieces as features, either print or
online, and some in my column every Tuesday and in my thrice-weekly On
Tap posts.

One of the most important in 2022 was our February special issue on the
supply chain crisis. China was at the heart of that debacle, as I
covered in this piece
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I followed up with a piece in our June issue on what a progressive form
of globalization
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like.

I wrote several pieces on electoral politics and the challenge of
organizing, especially the need for Democrats to do better with rural
voters
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in fact they did do in November
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the conventional wisdom
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last summer and fall that the 2022 midterms would be a rout for
Democrats.
My interest in organizing and strategies for countervailing the power of
capital took me into a retrospective look at the grassroots impact of
legislation that I wrote early in my career when I worked as a Senate
investigator-the Community Reinvestment Act
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In our current (December) issue, I covered the several stresses on the
European Union <[link removed]>.
Reporting from Paris, I also wrote several pieces and posts about what
we can learn from the French medical system, including why American
hospital bills are so padded
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The perversity of the Federal Reserve's tight-money policy has become
an obsession for me. I've written several pieces, most recently this
one on the Fed's latest rate hike
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We will soon be launching a series of pieces that I will edit, by
dissenting economists, unpacking every aspect of the current inflation,
its causes and cures. As a related sideline, I continue to monitor and
debunk the longtime nemesis of progressive politics and sound economics,
Larry Summers <[link removed]>.

Since progressives rely heavily on affirmative government, we need to
know what it takes to make government work. That can get a little wonky.
The challenge is to write it as narrative journalism. My major recent
piece on that topic was
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deep dive into an obscure but powerful federal agency, the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, which has been repurposed under
Biden from anti-regulation to pro-regulation.

**The New Yorker**'s celebrated press critic A.J. Liebling liked to
observe that in practice, freedom of the press belongs to the man who
owns one. Having worked half my career for magazines and newspapers that
belong to other people, I can report that it's better to enjoy the
freedom of working at an independent publication, accountable to its
readers and led by its editors. Thank you for reading and supporting
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**Prospect**.

~ROBERT KUTTNER

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