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The Weeks Ahead: The future of voting rights and democracy
In light of last week’s devastating senate vote on voting rights, I keep hearing “voting rights are dead.” Wrong. If voting rights are dead, American…
4 years, 8 months ago
The curse of financial entrepreneurship
Wall Street may be having a bad week, but top bankers are doing wonderfully well. After a blockbuster year, the five biggest Wall Street banks just p…
4 years, 8 months ago
Psst: You really want to know why Manchin and Sinema came out against voting rights?
What can possibly explain Manchin’s and Sinema’s votes against voting rights this week? Why did they create a false narrative that the legislation ha…
4 years, 8 months ago
The End of Work
Across America, hospitals are pushed to the limit because so many health care workers have quit just as Omicron is surging.
But hospitals aren’t alon…
4 years, 8 months ago
The Week Ahead: How Biden can get his mojo back
This week may be a nadir for the Biden administration. After Krysten Sinema’s very public refusal to budge on the filibuster, voting rights legislati…
4 years, 8 months ago
Mickey
The convergence today of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and of the Senate’s unwillingness to protect voting rights causes me to remember my childhood fri…
4 years, 8 months ago
Need a bit of a pick-me-up? Let me introduce you to two young people.
These are hard times to keep your spirits up. Thinking you might need a bit of a boost, I’d like to introduce you to two young people who give me hop…
4 years, 8 months ago
Why isn't corporate America behind the pro-democracy movement?
Capitalism and democracy are compatible only if democracy is in the driver’s seat.
That’s why I took some comfort just after the attack on the Capitol…
4 years, 8 months ago
Quiz: Why should members of Congress be able to make money on inside information?
It infuriates me when members of Congress — whether Republican or Democrat — squander the public’s trust. There’s so little of it left to squander. S…
4 years, 8 months ago
What would the Supreme Court's "originalists" think of the filibuster?
Yesterday, a member of our group named Emmet Bondurant, a distinguished constitutional lawyer from Georgia, commented on this page about the filibust…
4 years, 8 months ago