We can’t just return to the status quo ante. Paradoxically, we’ll need a federal government with both more power and less.

Vice President of Policy Development at the Progressive Policy Institute and the Director of PPI’s Center for Funding America’s Future.

The ultra-wealthy’s dominant power in our political system forces the question: Should America limit billionaire fortunes? A ...

Policymakers from across the political spectrum are endorsing the abundance agenda, with voices ranging from Jared Polis to ...

Mothers Of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy By Elizabeth Gillespie McRae • Oxford University Press • 2018 • 343 pages • $34.95 After the 2016 election, many ...

The November 2020 presidential election marked a moment of real optimism for those looking for a politics beyond neoliberalism. Democrats, buffeted by four years of the Trump Administration and facing ...

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again by Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett• Simon & Schuster • 2020 • 480 pages • $32.50 Robert Putnam has done it ...

Stable, consolidated democracies are defined, in large part, by the durability of their formal institutions. Citizens, elected officials, and political parties engage in politics expecting democratic ...

In the fall of 2018, University of California, Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez said, to an audience of economists, policymakers, and the press, “If the data don’t fit the theory, change the theory.” ...

I hear that question a lot from Delawareans—nurses and cops, dental hygienists and mechanics. I also heard it plenty in 2024 as I campaigned for Kamala Harris and Senate Democrats. Elected ...

Nearly three years after Donald Trump won the presidency, in part by promising a substantial boost for American workers, Democrats are still attempting to agree on an economic message to help them win ...

Capitalism Alone: The Future of the System that Rules the World by Branko Milanovic • Harvard University Press • 2019 • 304 pages • $29.95 In certain quarters of the United States it is taken for ...