Open Markets Institute policy director Phillip Longman edited a groundbreaking special issue of the Washington Monthly on racial justice. View this selection of articles from that issue, which examined the origins of the racial wealth gap, especially its origins in policies that favored monopolies while denying opportunities to African Americans to build assets.

Tom J. Sugrue, A House Divided  https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/janfeb-2013/a-house-divided-2/

Max Ehrenfreund, Rumors of Land https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/janfeb-2013/rumors-of-land/

 Louis P. Masur, Thenceforward and Forever Free, Mostly https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/janfeb-2013/thenceforward-and-forever-free-mostly/

Phillip Longman, To Live Longer, Move to a New Zip Code   https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/janfeb-2013/to-live-longer-move-to-a-new-zip-code/

 Nicholas Lemann, Deconstructing Reconstruction https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/janfeb-2013/

 Reid Cramer, The American Dream, Redeemed  https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/janfeb-2013/the-american-dream-redeemed/