State officials have been hiding behind a fiction that businesses are shuttered and people are out of work because of a pandemic. This is...

As part of the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill, the minimum wage is expected to be raised to $15.00 an hour. Whether this should be part ...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. A new administration has taken power, and it appears to be the usual politics of und...

One version of the median voter theorem holds that the greater the distance between the median voter’s income and the average income of s...

There are a couple of models of representation. The first model is where the elected representative, say a member of Congress, serves as ...

In the wake of the 2020 presidential election, there is a question that looms large. Was the 2016 election an aberration? Or did it refle...

I have written in this space in the past about how polarization in America is really about a tale of two economies and their respective l...

We have heard a lot in recent years about voter suppression. Voter ID laws, for example, are an effort to suppress the vote. Because poor...

It is the eve of the 2020 election and still no agreement has been reached on a second coronavirus relief bill. The Democrats still hold ...

As we move into the two final weeks of the 2020 election, we are once again hearing about taxes. The Trump people claim that Biden will r...

In his new book, The New Class War, Michael Lind suggests that American society could best be divided into the managerial elites who are w...

In the wake of the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the selection of the next Supreme Court justice has enormous implications. Thi...

In the current campaign for the presidency, we hear quite often that the choice before us is between capitalism and socialism. Or worse, ...

A couple of weeks ago in this space I talked about the roots of polarization lying in the economy. It is almost as though we have two eco...

The U.S. has long been divided along ideological lines. Republicans and conservatives are to be found disproportionately in what are refe...

Republicans again appear to be haggling over minor stuff these days with the potential to incur huge political costs. First, there were t...

With coronavirus cases around the country rising and some states slowing the pace of reopening their economies, there are those calling f...

Over the years, the economy has evolved from the small pre-industrial craft economy, where business enterprises were truly small and the ...

The country is beginning to reopen and the cold reality is that the economy will not be what it was before, nor should it be. Perhaps COV...

Over the last few decades we have seen a tendency in many cases not to enforce anti-trust laws, which were designed to break up monopolie...