How Democrats can win back the working class on March 20, 2017Of all the promises Donald Trump made as a candidate, perhaps none was more important than his pledge to the working-class voters who flocked to his campaign. “Under a Trump presidency,” he said, “the American worker will finally have a president who will protect them and fight for them.” But since his election, Trump has […]
A new campaign to hold Wall Street accountable emerges on June 5, 2016Wall Street’s big banks remain too big to fail and its bankers apparently too big to jail. If Wall Street is ever once more to serve Main Street rather than sabotage it, citizens will have to do the heavy lifting. Last week, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit […]
Sanderss hope for a moral economy is amplified at the Vatican on April 24, 2016Sen. Bernie Sanders’s overnight trip to the Vatican last week was parsed mostly as a campaign tactic – whether this was a wise use of time with the New York primary approaching. Sanders’s supporters relished the contrast with Hillary Clinton. While the Vermont senator went to the Vatican and met with Pope Francis, Clinton traveled […]