Reviving stimulus negotiations: A lesson from the past century
This piece has appeared on The Hill Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said on Sept. 24 that they...
Paul A. London: Founders' insights predicted progressives' hard-line tact
BECKET — As the 2020 election approaches, progressive ideas are gaining traction. These would expand the safety net for hard-pressed...
Eighty-Eight Years of Debt Pieties
The Senate is leaving town until July 20 without replenishing the economic aid package that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and...
When Presidents Played by the Rules
The old white marble D.C. Library is in a park in a rapidly gentrifying part of Washington in front of the new Convention Center. It is...
Paul Volcker
Paul Volcker died on December 9. He was a man of integrity and deserves to be celebrated. The obituaries, however, give him too much...
Trump and Freud: "Civilization is Repression."
“Civilization is repression.” Repression means suppressing wishes that if acted on would enrage others, destroy communities and even be...
Letter in Washington Post
Lawrence H. Summers, in his July 3 op-ed, “Jobs for all? It’s not so simple.,” looked at a “federal job guarantee” from the wrong end of...
The Untold Story of Congressional Votes For and Against Medicare and Social Security
House Republicans voted 95 to 1 in April, 1935 to block the creation of Social Security. Those 95 GOP representatives were voting “to...
A Positive Program for the Democratic Party
Democrats need to put forward a positive program that appeals to all Americans and that does not generate the backlash inherent in...
Could the U.S. Grow as Fast as China? Of Course It Could.
The U.S. still has what Alexander Hamilton called “the adventurous spirit, which distinguishes the commercial character of America.”...
