Globalization has cost us more in instability than it’s benefited us in efficiency.
Robert Kuttner
Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, and professor at Brandeis University’s Heller School. His latest book is Notes for Next Time: Surviving Tyranny, Redeeming America. Follow Bob at his site, robertkuttner.com, and on Twitter.
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Where Is the Party of Recovery?
By kowtowing to the deficit hawks, the president is snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory.
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The Housing Drag on the Economy
House prices are falling again, threatening our fragile recovery.
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Gandhi in East Boston
The mainstream media don’t know what to make of Gene Sharp, the American political thinker who helped inspire the Egyptian revolution.
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Champions of the Middle Class
Can organized labor lead a movement to restore broad economic security? It’s hard to imagine who else will.
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Unequal to the Moment
The president doesn’t matter as much as you think. But this one could have done so much more.
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Roads Not Taken.
The White House story is that there really wasn’t any alternative to the tax, unemployment, and Social Security deal. Here are two good ones: For starters, long before the Nov. 2 election, President Obama and the congressional leadership could have forced one vote after another on the unemployment extension and on preserving the Bush tax […]
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Why Democrats Are Deserting Obama.
Dorothy: You’re a very bad man for pretending to be a wizard. Wizard: No, I’m a good man, just a very bad wizard. Barack Obama, you might say, is a very good man who is just not turning out to be a very effective president. And he makes a serious misjudgment if he thinks that […]
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The Next Banking Crisis
The foreclosure mess may force a solution to the deeper economic drag of underwater mortgages and zombie banks.
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Fighter, Conciliator, or Scold?
With a conservative Congress, Obama can invoke Truman, Clinton, or Carter.
