Who supports using trade to undermine regulation of capitalism? Wall Street and its corporate allies.
Robert Kuttner
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
No Jobs But Crappy Jobs: The Next Big Political Issue?
The mass frustration is surely there. What’s missing is a mainstream national leader who will make this cause a prime election issue.
Posted inEducation in America
Education Alone Is Not the Answer to Income Inequality and Slow Recovery
If everyone in America got a PhD, the job market would not be transformed.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Thoughtful, Prudent and Faltering: The Paradox of Obama
No president ever wins points for being Hamlet.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Cold Porridge For Regular People: The Myth of the Goldilocks Economy
Some Wall Street analysts describe this economy as not too hot, not too cold, but just right. But for a worker who hasn’t seen a raise in a dog’s age, it’s a bear market.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Liberal Heroes Miss the Mark in Today’s Times Columns
Writing on Congress, Blow blows it; on financial reform, Krugman is a tad too cheerful.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
7 Foreign Policy Crises That Show Republicans Prefer Disaster to Solutions
Leaders like Cheney seem more concerned with appearing muscular than solving global conflicts. In fact, attempt a solution, and you’ll be called weak.
Posted inArticle
5 Ways Wall Street Continues to Sandbag the Economy, and How to Fix It
If you wonder why so many Democrats are too timid to pose a robust recovery program for regular people, the financial-sector connection provides much of the answer.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Three Reasons Liberals Lack Traction With Voters, Despite Conservative Failures
The liberal imagination has been stunted by decades of conservative obstruction.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The American Prospect Continues
When we started The American Prospect with Robert Reich in 1990, our aim was to foster a “plausible and persuasive liberalism” by bringing together journalists and scholars into a public conversation about the future of American society and politics. In nearly 25 years, the Prospect has undergone numerous changes both in print and online, but […]
