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Landscape still favors Dems, Rustbelt/Midwest weakness for Trump/GOP, Beto's $38m matters and there is no doubt the election is going to change the Democratic Party. House appears to be poised to flip - but still many many close races remain, everywhere.
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Simon offers the idea of creating a new government department focused solely on job creation and skill acquisition.
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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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The more the world moves away from the simplicity of the Reagan moment the more angry and defiant the Republican offering is becoming.
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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.
Features
In a new column, Simon says Congress must begin debating Trump’s sustained effort to undermine the post WWII order.
In a new series challenging Trump's tariffs, we argue that the President's trade policy is illegal, recklessly ignorant, damaging to the US...
Trump’s trade policies are hurting the Iowa economy. His tariffs are unpopular there, and his party is performing badly in the fall elections....
The future of the American center-left is through a renenwed embrace of both patriotism and optimism.
Recent Work
In a new analysis, Chris Taylor argues that declines in labor force participation and the employment-to-population ratio offer warning signs for job growth.
In a new analysis, Chris Taylor argues that NAFTA 2.0 is a largely cosmetic revision to its predecessor that borrows heavily from Obama’s TPP.
Recent polling on Trump's tariffs. All in one place. Updated daily.
In his new column, Simon argues that Trump’s separation of kids at the border is the result of a political crisis for his administration, rather than any real immigration crisis on the ground
In a new op-ed, Simon looks at the sophisticated Russian attacks on our elections and makes recommendations for what Congress and the Administration can do right now to ensure what happened in 2016 doesn’t happen again in 2018
In a new op-ed, Simon asks whether middle class Americans are better off under Trump. Data suggests that they are not.
Some recent data from Pew Research suggests pace of erosion of TV, rise of digital is picking up, and 2018 likely to be first election more folks get their news online than from TV. Big implications for US politics.
Rob explains the potential consequences of Commerce Secretary Ross's decision to "reinstate" a question on citizenship status.
