If you’re like me, you can’t wait for an excuse to head on over to the historical tables of the president’s budget and grab some data to make a couple of graphs. O.K., so you’re not like me in that respect, because you’re not a weirdo. But I am, so when I saw that the […]
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How Bernie Sanders, In New Role, Could Make Wall Streeters Very, Very Unhappy
The iconoclast from Vermont plans to use his place as opposition leader on the Senate Budget Committee in a whole new way.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Labor at a Crossroads: The Case for Union Organizing
The labor movement has been growing while shrinking—growing through organizing.
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Can Moral Mondays Produce Victorious Tuesdays?
North Carolina’s protest movement has galvanized the state’s progressives, but couldn’t stop 2014’s Republican tide. Its leaders say they’re only just beginning.
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Chris Christie Counts on Public Amnesia
With his newfound support for expanding New Jersey’s rail capacity, the governor hopes no one remembers that he killed an earlier federally subsidized project that would have done exactly that.
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Obama’s State of the Union Preview Serves Up Pretty Weak Brew
Free college and discounted down payments sound great, until you unpack the specifics.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The True Cost of Teach For America’s Impact on Urban Schools
Why are school districts paying millions in “finder’s fees” to an organization that places people without education degrees to teach in urban schools—even where applications from veteran teachers abound?
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Intrigue: Doth Chuck Schumer Protest Too Much When Called ‘Enabler’ of Bad Budget Deal?
 If Elizabeth Warren, the scourge of Wall Street, emerges as a rival to Schumer, close association with the big banks could prove even more toxic for him.
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The Great Budget Sellout of 2014: Do We Even Have a Second Party?
The Democrats not only lost this vote on issues they allegedly care about; they lost their role as a credible opposition.
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Progressives Just Lost a Fight On the Budget. So Why Are They So Happy?
Some feel the coming of a resurgent left.
