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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.
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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 announced Democratic candidates in the race as of this morning, the 2020 election is now fully underway. Election analysis has...
Recent Work
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.
It is a myth that Trump's anti-immigrant and protectionist policies have made it difficult for Democrats to win in the Rust Belt in 2020. Trump is trailing badly there now raising questions about Trumpism itself has become a grand failure.
Trump is the most unpopular first-term president in over six decades and is leading Republicans down the path of the California GOP by ignoring those demographic groups that will over the next decade become more and more critical to winning elections
My thoughts on the European elections - rise of Liberals and Greens, right loses ground. Similar to what we are seeing here in the US?
America’s leaders should prioritize three things to protect our elections in the run-up to 2020: require paper ballots and audits, protect candidates from hacking and disinformation, and enter a pact to forgo the use of illicit campaign tactics.
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.
