These busy days, it’s hard to keep track of all that you’ve been doing. You may not remember what websites you’ve visited, who you’ve talked to and texted on your phone, every angle of every room in your house, and your precise location at every waking moment. Well, we’re the big web platform companies. And […]
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Posted inLaw and Justice
The Anti-Entrenchment Agenda
Entrenched power is the problem. What can be done about it?
Posted inEconomic Policy
A Groundbreaking New Enterprise: Buybax!
Want to make a killing in the stock market without actually creating anything of value? Try Buybax!
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
2020 and the Democrats’ Theory of Change
The Democrats can and must think big, but they have to frame their ideas around the realities of a coalition party that includes suburban moderates.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
As Trump Comes Apart, Can Democrats Come Together?
It’s understandable that the Democratic infighting has already begun. But given the stakes, can’t we have some kind of arms-control pact?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Can a Blue Wave Save America?
An ordinary wave in November won’t be enough. Democrats need a big majority of votes to get even a small majority of seats. And failure could unleash Trump.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
The Democratic Emergency
This is American democracy’s stress test. We have only limited time to pass it.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Democrats: Exorcizing Ghosts and Looking Forward
This article appears in the Winter 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. The Democrats’ stunning success in the November 7, 2017, Virginia state elections, and more recently, Democrat Doug Jones’s election in Alabama, portends a great blue wave in 2018. Or does it? The good news is that dozens of new groups […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
An American Way for America Now
Why the country needs a Democratic party that knows it needs white working-class voters
Posted inWorking in America
The European Mirror
Is there any way out of the dialectic of neoliberal policies producing economic backlash and support for the nationalist far right?