Rep. Barbara Lee Hits Back at Paul Ryan’s Dog-Whistle Politics Rep. Barbara Lee Hits Back at Paul Ryan’s Dog-Whistle Politics
What Paul Ryan really means when he lambasts “inner city” culture.
Mar 12, 2014 / Steven Hsieh
Paul Ryan’s Culture Canard Paul Ryan’s Culture Canard
“Inner-city men,” says Ryan, need to learn the “value and the culture of work.”
Mar 12, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg
Tech-Sector Neoliberalism Isn’t the Answer to America’s Inequality Problem Tech-Sector Neoliberalism Isn’t the Answer to America’s Inequality Problem
Policies favored by tech-industry titans tend to leave the economic privileges of the powerful unchecked, while penciling in a little welfare capitalism for the poor.
Mar 11, 2014 / Kathleen Geier
How to Win the Fight for Immigration Reform How to Win the Fight for Immigration Reform
Change won’t come to America’s broken immigration system from policymakers. It will come from organizers.
Mar 10, 2014 / Oscar Chacon, Amy Shannon, and Foreign Policy In Focus
Jon Kyl, Barred From Lobbying, Offers to Assist Clients with Tax Reform Jon Kyl, Barred From Lobbying, Offers to Assist Clients with Tax Reform
Even though he's in the ‘cooling off’ period, Kyl is lobbying on a proposed tax overhaul.
Mar 10, 2014 / Lee Fang
Vermont Votes for Public Banking Vermont Votes for Public Banking
“[It] doesn’t make any sense for us to be sending Vermont’s hard-earned tax dollars to some bank on Wall Street which couldn’t care less about Vermont or Ve...
Mar 9, 2014 / John Nichols
Why We Need International Women’s Day Why We Need International Women’s Day
Over 100 years after the first International Women’s Day celebrations, women continue to trail behind men by every economic measure.
Mar 7, 2014 / Kathleen Geier
Paul Ryan’s CPAC Speech Was Based on a Lie Paul Ryan’s CPAC Speech Was Based on a Lie
The kid in Ryan’s “full stomach…empty soul” CPAC speech is actually an advocate for free school lunches.
Mar 7, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg
The IMF (Finally) Admits That Inequality Slows Growth The IMF (Finally) Admits That Inequality Slows Growth
What remains to be seen is whether the IMF will use this research to develop policies that grow the economy through redistribution.
Mar 6, 2014 / Kathleen Geier
Obama Administration Gets It Precisely Wrong on Trade Policy Obama Administration Gets It Precisely Wrong on Trade Policy
The White House’s “2014 Trade Policy Agenda” rehashes failed ideas that harm rather than help economic renewal.
Mar 5, 2014 / John Nichols