Fifteen years ago, I wrote that Democrats couldn’t build things anymore, and that Dems needed to better balance regulation with production.
New Deal
Posted inEconomic Policy
Jimmy Carter’s Economic Legacy
He helped turn the Democratic Party away from its New Deal foundations.
Posted inTAP
Moving the Needle
Today on TAP: We keep winning the arguments. Can we win the politics?
Posted inTAP
Build, Baby, Build
Today on TAP: Kamala’s commitment to the care economy is great, but she needs to commit to the construction economy as well.
Posted inPolitics
The Speech FDR Would Give
As economic royalists ally with Trump, we have already seen an example of a rhetorical counter that tells it like it is.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
American Climate Corps to Focus on Next-Generation Workers
The Biden administration’s workforce development initiative aims to boost green employment options.
Posted inTAP
America’s Richest Men Ask the Courts to Make Unions Illegal
Today on TAP: Lawyers for Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Amazon say the Court erred in 1937 by letting workers have rights on the job.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Investing in Disinvested America
The Biden administration’s manufacturing subsidies are disproportionately flowing to red states and districts.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Forgotten Left Economics Tradition
In the Progressive and New Deal eras, there was a markedly different response to rising prices, and a different usage of economic theory.
Posted inBooks
Wrestling With the New Deal
The programs Roosevelt put together may not have met a Platonic ideal of modern progress, but they saved American democracy itself.