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Why Biden's plan to tax the super rich is moving from unlikely to likely
America is on the cusp of the largest inter-generational transfer of wealth in history. As wealthy boomers expire over the next three decades, an est…
4 years, 5 months ago
How Trump will win the midterms for the Democrats
I know the conventional wisdom about midterm elections — the party in power loses big — and I’ve lived through enough midterms to know that the conve…
4 years, 5 months ago
The secret to Amazon workers' extraordinary win
Yesterday was a big day for American workers. I want to start with the remarkable worker victory at Amazon’s giant warehouse on Staten Island and the…
4 years, 5 months ago
The pending death of the Supreme Court
Andrew Jackson allegedly defied the Supreme Court in 1832 over a case called Worcester v. Georgia, involving Georgia's attempt to apply state laws to…
4 years, 6 months ago
Office Hours: How are you staying hopeful in these trying times?
A pandemic that hasn’t ended. Inflation that’s soaring. Putin’s war in Ukraine that could escalate into a nuclear confrontation. A climate crisis tha…
4 years, 6 months ago
Really? A billionaire tax? Now? Are you kidding me?
President Biden’s budget, which came out yesterday, proposes a new minimum tax of 20 percent on households worth more than $100 million — which the W…
4 years, 6 months ago
Why do Putin, Trump, Tucker Carlson, and the GOP sound so much alike?
In a speech on Friday delivered from his office in the Kremlin, Putin criticized the West’s “cancel culture” which, he charged, is “canceling” Russia…
4 years, 6 months ago
Warning: The Fed is aiming a battering ram at the American economy
As Putin’s war shakes up the world economy, the Fed last week raised interest rates by a quarter point and penciled in six more increases by the end …
4 years, 6 months ago
Ukraine, climate change, and the common good
Joe Biden is in Europe today, consulting with NATO allies about how to ratchet up the pressure on Putin. I’ve been mulling how we might respond to Pu…
4 years, 6 months ago
Six months, and all because of you
Has it been six months already? I hadn’t intended to write every day but with so much going on in the world, I had no choice.
One of my hopes when I …
4 years, 6 months ago