If Obama is a transformative figure, it isn’t in the ideological way he seemed after his election.
Poverty & Wealth
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Will Economic Populism Win Back the Midwest for Democrats?
The decline of industrial unions and significant demographic changes portend challenging times for the region’s Democrats.Â
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Hillary for Liberals: A Conversation With Walter Shapiro
“As a campaigner, Hillary can do a shot and a beer better than Barack Obama can,” Shapiro says. So there’s that.
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There Is No Border Crisis: There Are Frightened Children, Fleeing Death
America’s response to child refugees from Central America is downright shameful.
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Go Ahead, Bash My City: I Can Take It
Here’s the real Cleveland joke: the utter dissonance of the GOP celebrating its platform of inequality in this working-class, majority-black, decidedly Blue city, where Republican attempts to suppress minority votes pose a regular problem.
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Why Democrats Need to Take Sides in America’s Class War
Straddling class divisions is so last century. There’s a new base in town, and it includes a lot of people who used to be middle-class but aren’t anymore.
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This Is What Happened When I Took the MTA Bus to Pick Up Food Stamps
A response to a much-chattered-about article by an upper-middle-class white woman who was appalled to find herself judged when she applied for food stamps.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Minimum Wage For Tipped Workers Hasn’t Increased Since the Fall of the Soviet Union
A new report from the Economic Policy Institute shows the ravages of an artificially depressed wage on food servers and other workers.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Justice Samuel Alito’s Deep Roots in the American Right
He’s the most pro-corporate jurist on the Supreme Court. So decisions that grant companies religious rights or take aim at labor unions come quite naturally to him.
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Corporate Tax Behavior So Bad Even Fortune Magazine Can’t Stomach It
These are companies that even a top cheerleader for the corporate class can’t bring itself to defend.
