Donald Cohen is the founder and executive director of In the Public Interest, an Oakland, California-based national resource and policy center on privatization and responsible contracting. His opinion pieces and articles have appeared in the New York Times, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, and the New Republic, among others.
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As people reach for social justice and better lives, they create public goods that must be kept out of the market. When private interests take over, they strip public goods of their power to lift people up, creating instead a tool to diminish democracy, f... SEE MORE