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Democrats Should Talk Like Normal People
Assistant Director Matt Lucky, Ph.D., reviews Joan Williams’ new book, Outclassed, which reflects on the Democratic Party’s loss of what she calls “middle-status” voters. Williams discusses her book with Bethany McLean and Luigi Zingales on this week’s Capitalisn’t episode, which you can listen to here.
Why Blue Collars Went Red
The following is an excerpt from Joan Williams' new book, “Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back,” now out at St. Martin's Press.
Piketty on the Covid-19 Crisis: “It Is High Time to Use This Opportunity to Counter the Dominant Ideology and Significantly Reduce Inequality”
In an interview with ProMarket, Thomas Piketty speaks about his new book, the role of ideology as a driver of inequality, and what the...
Election Timetabling Is Not the Role of Judges
As wrong as it is that the Wisconsin elections were held under patently unsafe conditions, it is not the place of the courts to...
The Electoral Effect of the Virus: How the Coronavirus Is Impacting Democratic Primaries
Compared to 2016, turnout was 22 percent higher (on average) for states voting on Super Tuesday, before Covid-19 emergency measures in the United States....
The Virus Outbreak Changed the Democratic Primaries: Sanders Is Running on Borrowed Time
Joe Biden swept Florida, Illinois, and Arizona on Tuesday, jumping ahead to 1,173 of the 1,991 delegates he needs to win the presidential nomination....
Can Google Mobilize Its Users to Lobby Elected Officials?
Google has an 87 percent market share in the search business and the potential to mobilize more voters than the Democratic primaries, according to...
“The Question Is Whether We Live in a Democracy or a Corporate State”
In an interview with ProMarket, Goliath author Matt Stoller discusses the political choices that led to the downfall of the American antimonopoly movement and the “addiction to...
Who Won the Democratic Debate? The ProMarket Panel Responds
A panel of ProMarket writers and editors met to watch the third Democratic Debate. Find out what they thought about it.
