2019-2020 was not a great year for the left in American politics. After a rather astonishing April, where seemingly every major Presidential candidate got on board with single payer, job guarantees, and other progressive agenda items, over the course of the year the left badly divided against itself and lost the Democratic nomination to a […]
Author: Steven Attewell
Because the details of policy actually matter, I’m taking this opportunity to highlight a really good proposal that Speaker Pelosi is bringing forward for the next stimulus bill: Speaker Nancy P
As longtime readers will remember, I used to do a podcast about the Venture Brothers with my friend and colleague Elana Levin over at Graphic Policy. While we’re still on hiatus waiting for S
I direct your attention to the above New York Times article for absolutely no reason whatsoever. In conclusion, mint the damn coin.
If anyone was still laboring under the misapprehension that the economic downturn was going to be a short one, this week’s unemployment report should come as a rude awakening. More people have n
When I said that Pelosi’s fiscal conservative tendencies were a weakness when it came to stimulus legislation, I didn’t think that an example would come along that would be quite so thuddi
The news that the Trump Administration wanted to hide has finally arrived: in addition to facing a literal pandemic in Covid-19, we are now also facing a pandemic of unemployment. The release of preliminary Unemployment Insurance claims rightfully sent a chill through the halls of power today, both because of what it suggests about the […]
Now that economic policymaking has shifted from the rather brief fight over the relatively small House bill to the multi-trillion stimulus bill that is being negotiated on over in the Senate, one of t
(This is wildly out-of-order, but if you follow me on Twitter or Tumblr, you’ll know that these ideas are running around in my brain, and the only way to get them to stop is to write them up.) There have been many x-cellent analyses of House of X/Powers of X and Dawn of X from […]
