Fed leadership has long been dominated by the 1 percent. The Community Advisory Council could help change that.
Ady Barkan
Ady Barkan is the director of the Center for Popular Democracy’s Fed Up, a national campaign for full employment and a reformed Federal Reserve.
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Challenging the GOP’s Filibluster
The Senate Democrats’ strategy in dealing with Republican obstruction hasn’t worked so far. Here’s what they should do instead.
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Separation Anxiety
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings on the West Bank separation barrier, which took place at The Hague last week, have attracted widespread attention and zealous passion. Palestinians and their partisans set up a mock fence outside the courthouse, and anti-Zionist chants filled the air. Not to be outdone, a pro-Israel organization shipped the […]
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Peace Signs
Three weeks ago, former officials from the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority announced that they had negotiated a detailed framework for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Ever since, Israeli public discourse — for the first time since Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s landslide re-election earlier this year — has focused on the possibilities for peace rather […]