by Dave Johnson | Apr 25, 2014 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Obama is in Asia, partly to "reassure" partner countries that the U.S. is a strong ally and partly to push the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Both are to counter China's growing influence. While TPP is being sold as a "strategic" countermeasure to China,...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog, Education
For most children, their first teacher is a parent or primary caregiver. And most teachers will tell you that parent behaviors in the home affect student learning in schools. So it would make sense to make sure education policy isn't strongly at odds with what we know...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority
Mainstream Democratic campaign consultants and pollsters typically tell candidates they should "move to the right" and campaign to the "center" with positions that are "between" the "left" and the "right." This is the way, they say, to "attract swing voters" who would...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 24, 2014 | Blog, Economy
When a product sells phenomenally well, as Thomas Piketty's new book is currently doing, popular economic theory says that means one of two things: either it’s filling a substantial unmet demand, or the product is exceptionally well executed. In the case of "Capital...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 23, 2014 | Blog
The sky, we all learn as children, is not falling — and never falls. Only silly Chicken Littles prattle about “precipitous collapses.” Only silly Chicken Littles, apparently, and applied mathematicians. One of those mathematicians, the University of Maryland’s Safa...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 23, 2014 | Blog, Populist Majority, Progressive Vision, The New Populism
There is new evidence of the high price working-class people are paying because of the stranglehold conservatives have on our economy that should embolden Democratic candidates to offer bolder, progressive populist prescriptions for addressing income inequality and...
