The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is now dead in the lame duck, and with Donald Trump’s victory, most probably for good. But, there are remaining issues arising from the Investor-State Dispute […]
President Obama is mobilizing a last-ditch effort to overcome opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and get it passed before leaving office. He is planning to present it to Congress […]
Steven Hill, a Senior Fellow at the New American Foundation, has some advice for Hillary Clinton. He wants her to run on “. . . a bold issue that fires […]
Contemplating the likelihood that Hillary Clinton will win the presidential election, and may well carry in with her a Democratic House and Senate Paul Krugman considers what he ought to […]
So, let’s say you’ve followed my advice and decided to remain undecided or even began supporting Jill Stein from this point until election day, and then you find yourself in […]
With Bernie Sanders’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton has come a split among his “progressive” supporters. Some, perhaps most, say that it is time for Berniecrats to unite behind Hillary and […]
Bernie’s wins yesterday were certainly encouraging, while only his loss in Massachusetts was a bit of a surprise. Hillary Clinton won 7 of the 11 States at issue; but 5 […]
So, the Democratic presidential primary contests are now nearly at “Super Tuesday.” Bernie Sanders narrowly lost in Iowa, won big in New Hampshire, lost by a clear margin in Nevada, […]
Or, I might add, for any other obligation the Federal government cares to honor. Some time ago, in the pages of USA Today, Duncan Black, better known to some as […]
This book is about a counter-narrative to austerity politics. It exposes its fallacies, and, I hope, its closed-mindedness and futility. It also offers a way out of austerity politics. That […]