Last week, the Harris-Walz campaign unveiled multiple economic policy proposals, including a plan for housing. Attention being paid to housing issues is both welcome and urgent. Home prices have increased by 47 percent since the...
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At his speech to the Democratic National Convention last night, Bernie Sanders played the usual hits — and also called for a cease-fire in Gaza. But his righteous populist anger felt out of place before...
In recent years, the Democratic Party has had a simple method for dealing with the issue of skyrocketing living costs: ignore it and tell everyone that everything’s fine. Home prices have spiked 54 percent since...
Twenty years ago, Barack Obama skyrocketed to national prominence with a speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention (DNC). It was full of soaring rhetoric. Everyone remembers the bit about how Americans are “one people”...
Since Israel assassinated Hamas’s top leader and negotiator, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran on July 31, mediators from the United States, Egypt, and Qatar have attempted to reconstruct a cease-fire agreement that stands a chance of...
Heidi Matthews This gets us back to the binding/nonbinding part. The court elaborates Israel’s obligations just like in 2004. Israel has clearly said it doesn’t think that the court even had jurisdiction to issue this...
From the happy, coconut-strewn island of the Democratic National Convention, where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Hillary Clinton get the same rapturous response and the voices of Gaza protest are quickly silenced, it is easy to...
In March of this year, the Nobel Prize–winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman passed away. Glowing obituaries followed, with just about every intellectually minded newspaper and magazine attesting to his reputation as a pathbreaking scholar, and as...
CHICAGO — Day one of the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) saw two very different accounts of the American immigrant experience, at two very different events. At the morning’s Small Business Council meeting, restaurant owner...
Eugene Debs’s commitment to gender equality came early. In his mid-twenties, with women’s voting rights still four decades away, Debs personally brought Susan B. Anthony to speak in his hometown of Terre Haute, Indiana; in...
Ruth Milkman I think you absolutely need both. So for example, take the Flint strike of 1936, ’37. Even with the law on their side, I’m not sure the UAW could have possibly gained a...
Review of Nuclear Is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change, by M. V. Ramana (Verso, 2024) On June 24 this year, a battery factory in Hwaseong, South...
