As LBJ and MLK needed each other, so does today’s left-of-center establishment need the leftist vanguard—and vice-versa.
Conservatism
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Sharing the Wealth
Why can’t we broadly distribute the wealth produced from America’s common resource pool? Conservative Alaska manages to do it.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Black Kids Accused of Causing Their Own Deaths, From Tamir Rice to Emmett Till
As in the infamous 1955 murder of a black teen, society sought to taint the character of a 12-year-old black boy recently killed by police with the sins of his father.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Looking Forward to the Sequel
If we don’t alter the power distribution that led to the financial collapse, it will happen again.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Why Liberals Don’t Trust Hillary Clinton
An open letter to the likely Democratic nominee.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Why Economists Cling to Discredited Ideas
Free-market theory may be at odds with reality, but it fits the needs of the rich and the powerful.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Selma March Commemorated By Politicians Who Support Gutting of Voting Rights
The 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday—the catalyst for passage of the Voting Rights Act—is being remembered at a moment when voting rights in the South are at their most precarious in half a century.
Posted inAmerica and the World
How to Sabotage Iran Negotiations in the Name of Avoiding War
Israel and AIPAC are using Congress to push their own agenda of increasing sanctions on Iran and reducing presidential authority.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Netanyahu’s Campaign Road Show Comes to Washington
The Israeli prime minister didn’t offer an Iran policy to Congress. He offered dread and overconfidence to Israel voters.Â
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
CPAC, Congress and 2016: How Immigration Continues to Pull the Republican Party Down
For Republican primary voters, immigration is a cultural issue, every bit as much as abortion or gay marriage. Candidates have gotten the message.
