There’s been a wave of education and political mobilization around Medicare for All (M4A) since Bernie Sanders centered the demand in the 2016 primary. It’s also been a dominant question in the primary, with each candidate positioning themselves in or around the idea. Yet for all the ways it saturates…

We are always acting in light of our failures, either trying to evolve past them or break through them. The current push to address climate change is taking place in response of one of the biggest political failures of the past decade, the failure to pass cap-and-trade during President Obama’s…

I do not understand why the Left in a country like the United States should want to see the creation of a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) as part of their agenda. It is not necessary for and probably one of the worst ways to go about securing the Left’s agenda…

Do Democrats running for office for the first time have their act together when it comes to economics? Writer Ryan Cooper is skeptical, writing at The Week that “The Democratic Party is flying blind on economics.” …

Obama Prelude I had the “Obama in 2009” word vomit recently. I was talking with several people on the left involved in politics in the early Great Recession, and Larry Summers’ new paper on regional inequality came up. Someone joked that Summers should get the chance to direct hundreds of…

Imagine responding to our current political moment by thinking the opposition to Trump should be rooted in libertarianism. It’s the argument put forward in The Captured Economy (TCE), by Brink Lindsey and Steve Teles. In it, they want to build a political project around challenging inequality by attacking regressive regulations…

Senator Bernie Sanders released the latest version of his Medicare for All bill Wednesday. But this time he has 16 Democratic co-sponsors, including many Senators with their eyes on running for President in 2020. There’s been a lot written already about the bill, both on its political and policy frameworks. …

I believed the hype. At the beginning of this year I thought President Trump would sign a reconciliation bill gutting the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by the time Congress took their February recess, the GOP’s own set schedule. They didn’t. It turned out the GOP’s policy intellectual class were the…

We’re going to hear a lot more from Republicans about how a single, simple 10 percent leverage requirement can replace much of what Dodd-Frank does. This idea is central to the Republican CHOICE Act, and it was also reiterated recently in FDIC Vice-Chairman Thomas Hoenig’s plan for regulatory relief. Hoenig’s…