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The Single Best Argument Against Inequality
Nov 18, 2013Inequality undermines growth and hurts everyone.
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The Racial Wealth Gap
Nov 06, 2013It's worse than you think.
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Have Hope: Conservatives Rationalize Leftist Stuff They Like
Nov 04, 2013The Alaska Permanent Fund (APF), it is the most socialist government program in the country, but it earns conservative acclaim.
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Why Do Women Do Market Work?
Oct 28, 2013Most don't have the option not to.
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Sorry, John Stuart Mill Was Not a Libertarian
Oct 24, 2013For Mill, who gets what is a social decision.
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Heritage Action Is Ruining Your Government
Oct 17, 2013How the increasing influence of dark money groups after Citizens United helps to explain the shutdown and default brinksmanship.
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How Multi-Billion Dollar Corporations Rely on the Public to Feed their Workforce
Oct 16, 2013A new study puts a big price tag on federal subsidies to fast food companies.
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Heroism is a Symptom of Political Dysfunction
Oct 10, 2013Cory Booker shouldn't have to rescue his neighbor from a burning building.
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McCutcheon Oral Arguments Point Way Backward, and Forward
Oct 09, 2013The way conservative justices have defined campaign finance jurisprudence limits the arguments reformers can make. That needs to change.
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The Big Donors Behind the Shutdown
Oct 07, 2013A new investigative piece shows how the usual suspects have been pushing hard for Obamacare's repeal.
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McCutcheon Money: How Citizens United 2 Could Increase the Power of Elite Donors
Oct 04, 2013An upcoming Supreme Court case could open the floodgate of cash even further for elite donors.
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How the Left Sees Liberty
Oct 02, 2013The problem with libertarian and right-wing notions of liberty is not just that they implode; it’s that there is a more plausible notion of liberty offered up by progressives that is only achievable through leftist political economy.
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Hey, Wall Street—The Club for Growth Is Not Your Friend
Sep 30, 2013The looming government shutdown can be blamed in part on wealthy, influential donors.
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Inequality Is a Function of Political Power
Sep 27, 2013Had we put a different set of institutions into place, we could have avoided the inequitable distribution of income that we have seen over the past thirty years.
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Capitol Workers Strike to Protest Federally Subsidized Inequality
Sep 26, 2013Taxpayers pay $7 billion dollars a year to contracting executives making more than the Vice President of the United States. Wouldn't that money be better served raising the wages of low-wage workers?
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