50 years after the march, the economic racial gap persists
When President Obama takes the stage at the Lincoln Memorial Wednesday to commemorate the 1963 March on Washington, he will symbolize a big part of the complicated story of the nation’s racial progress...
View ArticleGraham: Obama policies in conflict
So what’s it going to be, Mr. President? Fighting income inequality, or granting amnesty for illegal immigrants? Because you can’t do both. President Obama says income inequality threatens the survival...
View ArticleObama policies in conflict
So what’s it going to be, Mr. President? Fighting income inequality, or granting amnesty for illegal immigrants? Because you can’t do both. President Obama says income inequality threatens the survival...
View ArticleThe GOP’s 'Hunger Games' Vision of America
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View ArticleIncome gap takes shape as central issue for both parties ahead of 2014 midterms
On Tuesday morning, Senate Republicans are expected to block an emergency measure to extend unemployment insurance. Soon after, President Obama will stand before a handful of the 1.3 million Americans...
View ArticleRepublicans promote ways of helping the poor
WASHINGTON — Faced with an empathy gap before the 2014 midterm elections, Republicans are trying to forge a new image as a party that helps the poor and lifts struggling workers into the middle class....
View ArticleThe Merits Of Income Inequality: What's The Right Amount?
Income inequality is a big problem, many economists agree. But they also say some level of inequality is necessary for capitalism to work. Inequality in the U.S. has risen to levels not seen since the...
View Article‘Great Society’ agenda led to great — and lasting — philosophical divide
The ambitious “Great Society” agenda begun half a century ago continues to touch nearly every aspect of American life. But the deep philosophical divide it created has come to define the nation’s harsh...
View ArticleMonsieur Piketty goes to Latin America: Perils of wide economic inequality
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View ArticleA Closer Look At Who's Really To Blame For Out-Of-Control Spending
The cover story in the 23 July 2012 Newsweek was bannered “18-35? You Are Generation Screwed!” and, online at The Daily Beast, on July 16th, it was headlined “Are Millennials the Screwed Generation?”...
View ArticleThe president and the post-Obama era
President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday is about more than the final three years of his presidency. Its purpose should be to influ ence the next decade of American political life and...
View ArticleThe Golden Rule: Theirs and Ours
Gary Olson, Empathy Imperiled: Capitalism, Culture, and the Brain (New York: Springer, 2012) Think of the values and ideas we left progressives tend to identify with and defend and advance against...
View ArticleBeing picky, picky picky on Piketty
In his bestselling book, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," Thomas Piketty analyzes historical data on wealth and income inequality in some of the world's economically advanced countries. The data...
View ArticleBeyond Elections
The American people tend to view the Republican and Democratic parties as near polar opposites, but this is far from true. Indeed, they are clearly more united on the fundamentals underpinning U.S....
View ArticleJoseph Stiglitz: Economics Has to Come to Terms with Wealth and Income...
(Source: Institute for New Economic Thinking) Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz has been writing about America's economically divided society since the 1960s. His recent book, The Price of Inequality,...
View ArticleCan Republicans Be Economic Populists?
The Republican postelection ideological repositioning project has chugged along fitfully and without satisfaction until just recently, when a solution struck with the blinding force of revelation. The...
View ArticleIn State of the Union, Obama calls for new paths to the middle class
President Obama’s State of the Union on Tuesday sounded like a familiar address touting the economic importance of a thriving middle class. But behind his proposals is a desire to tackle a much less...
View ArticleBarone: No progress for Picketty’s ‘rad’ inequality ideas
Last spring, you may remember, the French economist Thomas Piketty was all the rage in certain enlightened circles. His book “Capital” shot up to the No. 1 spot on best-seller lists, and many...
View ArticleTax Reform, the Family, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Remarks to the American Enterprise Institute September 17, 2013 I am here today because I believe the public policy status quo in Washington – and in particular, within the Republican Party – must once...
View ArticleEmancipation Proclamation vs. slavery from Democrats
SAN JOSE, CA January 8, 2014 — Last October, during the year of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, some influential representatives of the Democrat Party, especially...
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