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Vice President Biden and the Chairs of the State Democratic Parties have now advanced the idea of a pledge to forgo illicit campaign tactics. Is another encouraging sign that American has begun to take the necessary steps to combat foreign manipulation of our democracy.
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More Mad King than President, Trump's refusal to honor the laws, rules and norms which make democracies work is the greatest High Crime of all. His ill-considered, whimsical tariffs are just the latest example, and should be forcefully challenged by Congress.
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The global system created by Presidents FDR and Truman has done more to create opportunity, reduce poverty and advance democracy than perhaps any other policies in history.
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Michael Scherer of Time reports on the influence Dr. Rob Shapiro's analysis has had on shaping recent thinking about how the American economy is changing.
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The more the world moves away from the simplicity of the Reagan moment the more angry and defiant the Republican offering is becoming.
Features
This backgrounder pulls together our work looking at President Trump’s economic and trade policies.
The President’s repeated denials that Russia intervened on his behalf in 2016 have suppressed the normal societal immune response which...
What is happening on the border today is not an emergency; and the crisis, if there is one, comes from the failure of Trump’s extreme immigration...
With twenty plus announced Democratic candidates in the race as of this morning, the 2020 election is now fully underway. Election analysis...
Recent Work
In a series of essays and a big presentation, Simon offers an explicit rebuttal to the core argument Trump is making about America and its decline, an argument which is malevolently selling America and its people short every day.
Simon talks with Richard Clarke about what Russia did in 2016, new trends and threats we've seen in the past few years, and what steps we should be taking now to prevent foreign governments and domestic actors from manipulating our elections and discourse.
Evidence of the failure of Trumpism is all around us. His poll numbers are the worst of any 1st term President, his policies have left the nation weaker, more isolated. As he begins his re-election campaign, Trump is looking increasingly desperate, and we fear, dangerous.
Trump is the least popular first-term President in the postwar era, even while the economy he inherited continues to be strong. With the economy beginning to decelerate rapidly in the face of his reckless trade policies, however, his hopes for re-election are likely to get much worse.
My thoughts on the European elections - rise of Liberals and Greens, right loses ground. Similar to what we are seeing here in the US?
The dramatic erosion of the GOP brand in the heavily Mexican-American parts of the country over the past two elections is one of the biggest stories in American politics. Trump's border extremism has cost the GOP dearly.
Since 1989, Democrats have overseen strong and inclusive economic growth when in the White House, while the Republican Presidents have repeatedly seen economic under-performance and even recession and decline.
Simon offers the idea of creating a new government department focused solely on job creation and skill acquisition.
