To counter Donald Trump, Democrats must go beyond opposition to deliver policies that materially improve the lives of working families.
Heather McGhee
Heather McGhee is the president of Demos.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Create a Million Public-Service Jobs
This piece is part of the Prospect’s series on progressives’ strategy over the next 40 years. To read the introduction, click here. Lewis Powell wanted executives selling tires or aspirin to take on an additional job: selling capitalism itself. Today, the disparate strands of the progressive movement must learn the same lesson, advocating not just […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
It’s Wrong to Think Big Money Lost Last Night
It’s not about the spending, but the giving.
Posted inArticle
A Spending Cut by Any Other Name
Conservative Dems shouldn’t be fooled: The “CAP” Act would mandate huge cuts to popular domestic programs — even when there’s a budget surplus.
Posted inArticle
Wait, Can I Move to Loophole Land?
As I lament just how few deductions I can take to move that digital Turbo Tax counter up toward a fat green refund, I have to consider what it’d be like if, instead of corporations being people, people like me were corporations. Because then, as my colleague at Demos David Callahan writes today, I’d be […]
Posted inArticle
Maybe the Tea Party Should Only Protest on Private Golf Courses. . .
(Demos.org) But then again, there’d be the EPA and the Clean Water Act to thank for the waterways; local officials to thank for the zoning; federal transportation dollars to thank for the roads driven to enter the course … You get the point. My colleagues at Dēmos have a piece up today as part of […]
Posted inSpecial Report
Coalition of the Unwilling
Diverse individuals and businesses are hurt by
the financial system. Can they coalesce?
