Read the full piece at The New York Times. I spent the 1980s in newsrooms and boardrooms, watching companies get reshaped, watching regulators get dismantled, watching a small group of conservative strategists play a very long game. At the time, I thought I was covering a temporary correction, a pendulum swing that would eventually swing back. It didn't. In my new guest essay for The New York Times, I argue that we're not living after the 1980s. We're living in them. The deca