Category Archives: Political Strategy
Does Science Prove that the Modern GOP Favors the Rich?
Virtually everyone outside the Trump administration agrees that the GOP tax plans passed by the House and the Senate will…Continue reading
Blame the Economy for Widening Inequality – And Washington for…
America’s widening income inequality has become a subtext across most debates in domestic policy. GOP plans to repeal and replace…Continue reading
Donald Trump and Paul Ryan’s Plan to Put Foreign Investors…
The “Border Adjustment Tax” (BAT) endorsed recently by President Trump is his administration’s first foray into international economics. It is…Continue reading
The Trump and Clinton Foundations Are Character Tests that Hillary…
Donald Trump’s charge that Hillary Clinton used her office as Secretary of State to service donors of the Clinton Foundation…Continue reading
Bloomberg’s Education Reforms Will Be His Legacy
As Michael Bloomberg prepares his exit as New York City's mayor, a new analysis suggests that his signature reforms of…Continue reading
Are Republican Leaders Suffering from Stockholm Syndrome?
With a good part of the federal government closed for business, the pathologies driving it are too obvious to ignore.…Continue reading
The Economic Appeal of the Occupy Wall Street Movement to…
Seemingly out of nowhere, economic inequality is no longer the political issue that dares not speak its name. Since the…Continue reading
Grading Obama and the GOP Hopefuls on their Plans for…
Last week’s GOP debate at the Reagan Library, followed the next night by the President’s address to Congress, threw into…Continue reading
The Best Advice for the President: Think Big and Move…
In good times, a President without clear economic policies may not suffer for it. But in shaky and uncertain times…Continue reading
President Obama Wins the First Round with Paul Ryan
Yesterday’s presidential address on fiscal policy was a very striking scene. The venue was a small auditorium at George Washington…Continue reading