Overreacting would be bad economics and bad politics.
Jeff Faux
Jeff Faux, founding president and now distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, is the author of The Servant Economy and The Global Class War.
Posted inGreen New Deal
Will Americans Support a Big Green Government?
What will it take to restore the popular faith in government that a green transition requires?
Posted inImpeachment
Democrats Should Not Stop Now
The impeachment hearings must be continued, to follow the evidence wherever it leads.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Breaking Out of the Democrats’ Paralysis on Immigration
Democrats need more than compassionate policies for refugees. They need a policy to deal with the immigrant flow itself.
Posted inEconomic Policy
AMLO’s Gamble
Mexico’s decidedly leftist new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is taking on the business-political-criminal elite that has dominated his nation, and drenched it in bloodshed, for the past 40 years.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Mexico’s Hopeful New President
López Obrador’s victory ousted Mexico’s establishment. If U.S. and Canadian progressives work with him, they just might create a more democratic continent.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How What We Do There Drives Central Americans Here
It’s the United States that has unleashed the chain of violence that has forced thousands of refugees to seek asylum here.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Lesson for Democrats: Back to Class
It was the party’s neoliberalism that did it in.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Response to Starr: The Case for Withdrawing from the War Against ISIS
The war against the Islamic State has become a disastrous, unwinnable quagmire.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Class War: The View From the Board Room
A scene from corporate America circa 2014.