Today on TAP: It’s not enough to be ‘pro-democracy.’ It’s necessary to be pro-worker.
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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Industrial Policy: Now Comes the Hard Part
Enacting large-scale bipartisan legislation was a minor miracle. It will take an even bigger miracle to spend all that money effectively.
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Can Democrats Talk About Inflation?
Today on TAP: They’d better learn how. They won’t win the midterms just on reproductive rights.
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A French Lesson on Inflation and Social Class
Today on TAP: In France, workers have shut down oil refineries, demanding wage hikes as a share of company windfall profits.
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Bernanke’s Odd Nobel Prize
Today on TAP: As a close student of the Great Depression, he knew enough to prevent a repeat of it—but forgot the lessons about the need for tougher regulation of the financial system.
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Cheers for Social Security’s Cost-of-Living Adjustment
It will compensate seniors for the bout of inflation. Workers deserve as much.
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Recovery Is Not Quite Dead
Today on TAP: This will only whet the Fed’s appetite for more punishment.
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Stock Market Cheers Bad Economic News
Today on TAP: In hopes that maybe the deepening recession will change Fed policy. No such luck.
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Reclaiming the Deep State
How the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), the longtime graveyard of regulation in the public interest, became its unlikely champion.
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The Cost of Biden’s Student Debt Cancellation
Today on TAP: At $15 billion a year, it’s a good deal for students and for the economy, but it only begins reform of how we pay for higher education.
