March 7, 2021Using government power to support ordinary Americans.
February 16, 2021Not those of poor Americans, that's for sure.
June 5, 2020Democracy in America has been a series of narrow escapes. We may be running out of luck, and no one is coming to save us. For that, we have only ourselves.
June 1, 2020Class of 2020, wherever you are, I had planned to address you on this graduation day. But how can I? Yes, I know that former President Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and Tom Hanks all took part in elaborate online graduation ceremonies, offering commentary, advice, and encouragement in our now campus-less world, but I’m a hapless old guy with a flip phone from another age. And, of course, you’re not here on this glorious, sunny graduation day. There’s no verdant campus. No ...
May 28, 2020Many economists believe that a recession is already underway. So do millions of Americans struggling with bills and job losses. While the world has certainly experienced its share of staggering jolts in the past, this cycle of events is likely to prove unparalleled.
June 30, 2017A historian reminds us that to truly “make America great again” we must enhance freedom, equality and democracy, not diminish them.
April 30, 2017The Resistance needs to develop a memory of how past generations confronted reactionary threats to American democracy.
March 13, 2017Whatever happened to the separation of powers?
June 20, 2016At this year’s Democratic convention, we’re not likely to hear a version of FDR’s 1936 acceptance speech, but even 80 years later we still can act on his revolutionary words.
April 27, 2015President Obama and aspiring Democratic candidates need to “take a note” from FDR and set a progressive-populist political agenda for the upcoming campaigns.
