State Democratic AGs have assumed new importance in the effort to contain the Trump presidency.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Driverless Future?
If they ever get the bugs out, autonomous cars will put a lot of human drivers out of work.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Taking a Scalpel to Medicaid
Republican claims of their bill’s great flexibility for the states are a sham cover for disabling cuts.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Will Trump’s Tax Records Be the Next Pentagon Papers?
A broad coalition of activists is agitating to force the release of Donald Trump’s tax returns, but it may turn out that the only way we’ll ever see his records is if someone leaks them to the media.
Posted inWorking in America
Portable Benefits for an Insecure Workforce
Why Americans need portable benefits, what those benefits should look like, and how those benefits can be created and funded
Posted inWorking in America
Unions in the Precarious Economy
How collective bargaining can help gig and on-demand workers
Posted inAmerica and the World
America’s Interest in a Global Rule of Law
Will Trump destroy the global order that the U.S. has led?
Posted inEconomic Policy
Dismantling Dodd-Frank — And More
Candidate Trump promised to take on Wall Street. As deregulator-in-chief, he will be Wall Street’s best friend.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Can Labor Fight Back?
Trump and the Republicans plan to roll back worker rights to pre-New Deal levels.
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Uber: The Road Not Taken
Why Uber’s business model keeps bleeding money—and how it might yet right itself as a useful but less grandiose venture
