Or maybe the 1979 Project. Either way, Democrats are blundering into premature austerity.
Infrastructure, Housing & Transportation
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Inflation-Fighting Bill You Don’t Know About
An overwhelmingly bipartisan effort would finally crack down on the ocean shipping cartel.
Posted inBuilding Back America
The Incoherence of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
It reserves money for climate adaptation measures, but lets states use a much larger pot of money to build whatever they want.
Posted inTransportation
As Buttigieg Eyes a Presidential Run, His DOT Is Floundering
The transportation secretary has a major role to play in easing the supply chain crisis. Pete Buttigieg isn’t doing the job.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Why Would Anyone Expect Republicans to Implement the Biden Agenda?
Yet that’s what the Build Back Better Act does with practically all of its family care programs.
Posted inHousing
Polite, Legal, and Unacknowledged: The Devastating Biases of Well-Heeled Suburbia
Build Back Better highlights how upper-income whites engage in discrimination every bit as harmful as that ascribed to working-class whites. It also aims to stop it.
Posted inTAP
Biden the Silent
Today on TAP: The Democrats’ ‘messaging problem’ is partly due to Biden’s avoidance of the biggest bully pulpit, one only a president can use.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Job Gets a Foreman
Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu is Biden’s pick to make sure the project rolls out as intended.
Posted inVideos
⏩ Global Warning, a Virtual Event: The Most Pressing Issues of COP26
Diving deeper into the most urgent global climate issues
Posted inBuilding Back America
The Democrats’ Last Chance to Make Build Back Better Better
They can use the savings from provisions that will likely fall out of the bill in the Senate to make some remaining programs permanent.
