As of this writing Congress cannot agree on a stimulus package to mitigate the economic harm caused by COVID-19. And yet, the economic destruction, which is ...

Necessity as the mother of invention has long been a driving force for progress. In our political system, the main driver of change has been crisis. The poli...

As Bernie Sanders appears to be heading towards front-runner status, any number of people are expressing their shock and dismay over electing a socialist. In...

As the battle for the Democratic party nomination for President intensifies, much attention is paid to public opinion polls. In fact, it has become an obsess...

The policy of the day appears to be Medicare for All, which is really nothing different than a single-payer system. We need a single-payer system, the argume...

We hear a lot on the campaign trail these days about programs and new investment. We also hear lip service to the meaning of democracy. That is, in a democra...

Those pushing for Trump’s impeachment argue that it is essential to preserve the integrity of American democracy. By placing his own interests, i.e. ensuring...

For those on the right, inequality is a nonissue because gaps between the top and the bottom only serve to incentivize those at the bottom to work harder. Th...

By certain objective measures the economy is doing well. Unemployment is low at 3.7 percent, or so that is the official unemployment rate. That means the job...

Despite a recent positive jobs report, a low unemployment rate, a slight growth in wages, there are still problems plaguing the U.S. economy. Middle class wa...

In the presidential debates for the Democratic party nomination so far, instead of a debate, we have seen each candidate attempting to out do the other in te...

Last week the United Auto Workers (UAW) went out on strike against General Motors (GM), ostensibly over pay and benefits. Perhaps the real issue is capital m...

In the early 1970s the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan published a book entitled Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding. He wrote about how bureaucrats in Wa...

As the march off technology continues on, we are left to ponder a larger and perhaps deeper question: just what will the future of work look like? We have be...

People may be forgiven if they slept through the House of Representatives passing a bill last month to gradually raise the minimum wage

All of the candidates vying for the Democratic party nomination are for an increase in the minimum wage. They reflexively support it because

A presidential election is ultimately about agenda setting. Each campaign is attempting to set an agenda and build support for future policy action. The ques...

Income Inequality Continues to Rise Amidst Greater Globalization: The Governing Elite Cares for Neither Democracy nor the Middle Class. Since the election of...

It has long been a truism of American politics that to win the party nomination for president one has to run to the party’s extremes, and to win the general ...

Income inequality continues to rise amidst greater globalization and along with it political polarization continues to rise too. With the gap between the hav...