A new study finds that fathers are increasingly stepping up to the plate as primary caregivers. Why is public policy so far behind?
Economy
Reporting and analysis on the American economy and economic policy: how markets, monopolies, and public policy shape jobs, wages, and opportunity. Includes our long-running coverage of antitrust and corporate power in The Monopolized Economy.
Posted inEconomy
Liberals and the Science of GMOs
If conservatives are wrong to be skeptics of climate science, why won’t liberals accept the science around the safety of GMOs?
Posted inEconomy
The Real Roots of Class Rage
Anger over inequality is not about the “one percent.” Growing inequality within the middle class may be what’s really driving populism.
Posted inEconomy
How to Solve the Crisis in Black Unemployment
Adding 1.1 million new minority entrepreneurs would add 9 million sorely needed jobs to the U.S. economy.
Posted inEconomy, Political Animal, The Monopolized Economy
Elizabeth Warren’s Consolidation Speech Could Change the Election
You can read the whole thing here.
Posted inEconomy
What Donald Trump Gets Wrong About U.S. Manufacturing
American manufacturing isn’t in as bad a shape as Trump claims.
Posted inEconomy
Government Investment and “Opportunity for All”
A spate of new books shows that government investment, not laissez-faire policies, leads to economic growth.
Posted inEconomy
Book Review: American Amnesia by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson
Hacker and Pierson’s political argument has a lot in common with that of old-style liberals like J.K Galbraith and Charles Lindblom.
Posted inEconomy
The Boy in the Bubble
Did widespread fraud really drive the housing crisis? This former Citigroup employee was inside the bubble when it popped.
Posted inEconomy
The Age of Em Won’t Happen
Assessing the sci-fi future of labor done by emulations of brain-scanned human beings.
