Broadband

Not enough people anymore, everybody being brainwashed by neo-classical 'free-market' economics, pay attention to the helpful and necessary economic activity that the state, and often only the state, can undertake. A prime example is broadband. In the Washington Monthly Robert McChesney and John Podesta sketch out why broadband is critical for 21st century economic growth and how seriously the US is falling behind the rest of the world. They also make a number of sensible policy recommendations, which, I would add, obviously must wait for a different configuration of political forces in Washington DC.