Today on TAP: As wealth has concentrated, investment has declined
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Want to Reduce Inequality? Reduce It in Corporate Paychecks!
Today on TAP: Tax excessive CEO salaries
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Impeachment Is an Educational Tool, Not a Book Report Due Friday
Today on TAP: The misguided rush to judgment on impeachment
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Now This—a Food Break From Impeachment Obsession
I take my hat off to The New York Times and The Washington Post for their superb investigative coverage of Trump’s self-immolation. However … There is another aspect of the Times that demonstrates just how out of touch the Paper of Record is with the way most people actually live—its fawning over elite consumption and […]
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Trump’s Death by Self-Regard
The just-released transcript of Trump’s call with Ukraine’s president Zelensky is nothing short of staggering. Trump’s self-regard, swagger, and extreme narcissism are all on display. You get the sense that he is so eager to strut his stuff and have the public see it, that it overwhelms any sense on his part that this particular […]
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How Grad Students Can Unionize Despite Trump’s NLRB
Last Friday, in one of its least unexpected diktats, the National Labor Relations Board, now controlled by Trump appointees, indicated that it’s going to revoke the right of graduate students who work as teaching or research assistants at private universities to bargain collectively. (Whether grad students can unionize at public universities is up to the […]
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Inevitable Impeachment
Well, just when Democrats are in danger of giving in to faintheartedness, you can count on Trump to rescue them from their risk aversion. All the smoking-gun material laid out in the Mueller report was not quite enough to push the House Democratic leadership to support impeachment. The sins of the 2016 campaign increasingly felt like yesterday’s […]
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Using Presidential Power for Good
When I first interviewed as executive editor of the Prospect over a year ago, I was asked what kind of projects I might like to put together. Two things came to mind, and they both launch today. I have been consistently frustrated by the sorry state of coverage of presidential politics. Briefly put, we don’t […]
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The Oxymoron of House Democratic Governance
It was not a memorable week in the annals of Democratic policymaking. Earlier this week, I wrote a preview of H.R. 3, Nancy Pelosi’s drug-pricing bill, seen as the signature effort of this year’s legislative session. I mentioned in there that the summary, still riddled with questions, probably represented the high-water mark for the bill, […]
