“Market humanism” is how the economy should work, argue Nick Hanauer and Eric Beinhocker.
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Posted inPolitics
Jake Sullivan on a New Economic Alliance
Biden’s national security adviser takes on old-style free trade agreements and makes the case for putting American economic security at the heart of American foreign policy.
Posted inPolitics
The Visionary Politics of Nomadland
Chloé Zhao’s film offers a rare depiction of the American working class in the deindustrialized heartland.
Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
Facts That Challenge the Narrative About Angry Working Class Voters
Every presidential election narratives are developed that attempt to highlight significant groups of voters and explain their political choices. For example, do you remember “soccer moms” in 1996? With the candidacies of both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders this year, we are hearing a lot about “angry” and “working class” voters – with those two […]
Posted inPolitics
Misplaced Nostalgia for the “Good Old Days”
The bygone days of American greatness evoked by Trump and Sanders are largely based on myth.
Posted inEconomy, Politics
The Not-So-Simple Politics of Inequality and the Middle Class
Soaring inequality should be leading to policy and political change. So why hasn’t it?
Posted inGovernment, June/July/August 2015, Magazine
The Average Joe’s Proviso
Surprising numbers of white working-class voters will support the Democratic agenda—if Democrats promise to reform the government that would carry it out.
Posted inJanuary/February 2013
A House Divided
Why do middle-class blacks have far less wealth than whites at the same income level? The answer is in real estate and history.
Posted inEconomy, Government, July/August 2012, Magazine
Introduction: Jobs Are Not Enough
More than any election in living memory, the 2012 race is shaping up to be about one thing: jobs. Pundits are convinced that the rate of job growth between now and November is the magic number that will determine the outcome. The main policies the candidates are debating—whether to cut taxes or raise them on […]
Posted inGovernment, July/August 2012, Magazine
The Hole in the Bucket
Americans obsessed over personal finance during the last forty years as never before. So how come so many of us wound up broke? Here’s the little-known story.
