Goodbye to All That Democracy
Can our constitution co-exist with extremes of economic inequality?
Gift Horse or Trojan Horse?
The mixed record of America’s new rich as often self-interested philanthropists Â
The Long Arc of Protest
While digital media make it easier to spread activist messages, today’s movements face many of the same problems their forerunners did. Â
Fiscal Purgatory in New York
How New York’s budget crisis was used to roll back expansive government Â
Ignoring Police Violence
Baltimore officials accepted a voluntary settlement to reduce police abuses. Jeff Sessions wants to kill it.Â
Silk Roadblock
Yo-Yo Ma’s celebrated project for global understanding through music runs into Donald Trump’s sour note.
Tilting at Windmills
Why the green jobs promise is still unfulfilled
The Pittsburgh Conundrum
Can you have a model city in a left-behind region?
State-Enforced Segregation and the Color of Justice
Jim Crow was the descendant of Southern slavery. More shocking is the legacy of government-enforced racism in the North. Â
Charlie and the MBTA
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s privatization initiative at greater Boston’s transit authority has realized short-term savings—but the cure is still adequate public investment.
The Great Los Angeles Revolt Against Cars
L.A. voters have chosen to tax themselves to build a citywide rail system. Can rail also resurrect the city’s long-vanished middle class?Â
Private Equity: The New Neighborhood Loan Sharks
Veterans of the Contract Buyers League hit the doors again.
Will Trump Kill the CFPB?
Created in response to the financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned nearly $12 billion to consumers—which may be exactly why it’s now under threat.
The European Mirror
Is there any way out of the dialectic of neoliberal policies producing economic backlash and support for the nationalist far right?
Who Is Wilbur Ross?
From bankruptcy king to Trump’s king of commerce
Kansas, Sam Brownback, and the Trickle-Down Implosion
The Kansas governor’s attempt to create supply-side nirvana in Middle America not only failed to grow the economy—it created a crippling crisis of government that led to a statewide rejection of his politics.
Settlements: The Real Story
Fifty years after the Six-Day War, a mistaken account of how settlement began still plagues Israeli politics.
Place Matters
As in the 1930s, progressives need economic development strategies for the left-behind regions of the country.
Why the White Worker Theme Is Harmful
It’s a mistake to racialize an economy that harms the entire working class.
Democrats Need to Be the Party of and for Working People—of All Races
And they can’t retake Congress unless they win over more white workers.
A Tale of Two Populisms
The elite the white working class loathes is politicians.
The Democrats’ ‘Working-Class Problem’
It’s not only with whites. It reaches well into the party’s base.
