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America’s great experiment with protectionism hasn’t revived manufacturing or reduced the trade deficit, but instead has destroyed over 300,000 jobs and cost the average household $1,000.
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We've worked hard this year to forge a better path for our country in a time of enormous national challenge. We've produced a wide array of compelling works, and are breaking through, making a difference.
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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
The President’s repeated denials that Russia intervened on his behalf in 2016 have suppressed the normal societal immune response which...
Among the most significant political developments of the Trump era is the dramatic shift of under 45 year old voters towards the Democrats. From...
With twenty plus announced Democratic candidates in the race as of this morning, the 2020 election is now fully underway. Election analysis...
This backgrounder pulls together our work looking at President Trump’s economic and trade policies.
Recent Work
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
New digital threats will require US political parties to start seeing themselves as front line actors in our national effort to protect our elections and discourse. Some thoughts on how the parties can re-imagine themselves to meet these challenges head on.
Every Monday we will be updating a list of high volume pro-Trump Twitter accounts, ones we call "amplifiers." The goal - to get a sense of how many of these accounts there are out there.
Updated data on growth, jobs, and investment reveals the extent of Trump’s failed promises on the economy. There is little evidence that Trump’s tax and trade policies boosted investment, and both economic and jobs growth either declined or remained constant from 2017 to 2018.
Responsible leaders of both parties need to act with great moral clarity now and spend this fall confronting three grave threats to our homeland – deadly right wing terrorism, gun violence and foreign manipulation of our elections and discourse.
A series of events over the past several months raises questions about whether using Russian style disinformation tactics has become a core part of the GOP’s electoral strategy in 2020.
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.
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 approach which has created an extraordinary mess on both sides of the US border with Mexico.
