The House Financial Services Committee—long a landing place for pro-bank Democrats—now includes AOC and a flock of leftists. And Maxine Waters is its new chair.
Private Equity
Posted inEducation in America
The College Admissions Scandal: Graft By Any Other Name
Outright bribery may be the exception, but favoring the rich is the rule.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Needed: A U.S. Policy on Saudi Arabia
The next administration would do well to revise the long-standing U.S. partnership with Saudi Arabia, and America has substantial leverage to produce change in the kingdom’s behavior.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Beto Versus The Barrio
The rock-star Democrat Beto O’Rourke, a candidate for president, once supported the bulldozing of a low-income neighborhood in his hometown of El Paso—a project spearheaded by his father-in-law.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Stock Buybacks Undermine Sustainable Prosperity
The debate over buybacks is a debate over how to create more broadly shared prosperity. Here’s why their defenders’ arguments are flat-out wrong.
Posted inEducation in America
Yale’s Endowment Won’t Divest from Fossil Fuels. Here’s Why That’s Wrong.
Two climate activists and Yale alumni confront the arguments of Yale’s chief investment officer, arguing that he must summon the moral clarity to end support for fossil fuel companies.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Myth of American Innovation
The intrepid New Yorker pulls back the curtain on how private companies profit from taxpayer-funded research.
Posted inEconomic Policy
A Call to Moral Capitalism
There is an alternative to Trumpism. We need to clearly articulate it.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Want a Green New Deal? Then Challenge Global Capitalism
As climate change accelerates, communities of color suffer while corporations continue to rake in profits and the wealthy flee to safer locales.
Posted inTAP
Bash Your Billionaire!
It’s been one of those weeks when billionaires have been much in the news. Herewith, three varieties of the follies and delusions of the super-rich. Billionaire Bilgewater. In Davos, the world’s priciest echo chamber, the billionaires assembled for the annual World Economic Forum turned their attention to economic inequality. “We’re living in a Gilded Age,” […]
