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

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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