Politics

It resulted in significant corporate stock buybacks rather than investments in workers or innovation.

"It's not a slap in the face. It's a step in the right direction. We shouldn't be going [into] debt for getting an education."

The foundation of an economy is money. And if the creation, value and availability of that money are controlled by few elites instead of a free market then it doesn’t matter how complex and a giant system we build.

"It's on us, the people, to protect our democracy. Congress will only act if we the people demand it."

The EXPERTS Act and the Stop Corporate Capture Act aim to restore agency expertise, increase transparency in regulatory decisions, and reduce the influence of corporate funded studies and litigation in the rulemaking process.

The progressive vision for 2020 is focused on the needs of average working people, on the strength of society rather than on winner-take-all individualism, on the cooperative efforts of underpaid people who have been forced out of the middle class.

Time to reach out to each other. Hello?

It doesn’t matter if he personally wins or not, so long as his platform – and particularly Medicare for All – is victorious.

We are barreling toward a “share” economy where robots do everything predictably programmable in advance and human beings do all of the unpredictable tasks. This is the troubling reality of the new digitized economy.

The battle royale between the two may prevent COP30, hosted by Brazil, from issuing any joint communiqué or “cover letter.”