How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network, by Shane Greenstein, Princeton University Press, 488 pages, $35 In 1991, the internet was one data ...

A few years ago, Chicago residents accustomed to parking on the street got a rude shock. Parking-meter rates had suddenly gone up as much as fourfold. Some meters jammed and overflowed when they ...

It was 2015, and the city of Missoula, Montana, was fighting to take control of its water supply. Missoula’s privately owned waterworks had recently been sold to Mountain Water, a company owned by the ...

Britain's Labor Party politicians had promoted state-owned enterprise, before and after World War II, as an almost altruistic undertaking. "The public corporation must be no mere capitalist business, ...

Younger workers can wait out market dips, but those about to retire have less of a cushion against portfolio losses, making safer Social Security savings all the more important. If GOP survives the ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. In Dillon Beach, California, residents pay four to six times ...

Ronald Reagan was a great president. He stood up for the ideas of limited government, free trade, and free markets, and the rollback of communism. Reagan is often associated with the global ...

Facing the rising prospect of privatization, the remaining public water officials in Philadelphia’s suburbs take pride in holding out and keeping water bills low. North Penn Water Authority executive ...

Handing public assets and services over to the free market has been a boon for corporate America and a disaster for the working class. The evidence is in and the verdict is clear: Privatization is bad ...

A few weeks ago, my father, a farmer in Southern California, stopped picking mid-harvest because of disruptions in produce distribution lines due to the coronavirus pandemic. My sister, concerned ...