voter turnout in French election

voter turnout in French election

49 percent in 2017

Turnout this year was lower than in the past two legislative elections, 57 percent in 2012 and 60 percent in 2007.

Judis interview with Rodrik

What’s Wrong With Our System Of Global Trade And Finance

John Judis interviews Dani Rodrik

Gillibrand rips Trump

Gillibrand rips Trump: 'Has he kept his promises? No. F--- no'

What Jeremy Corbyn And The UK Election Should Teach Hillary Clinton — And Democrats

What Jeremy Corbyn And The UK Election Should Teach Hillary Clinton — And Democrats by Zach Carter

"Inspirational" Corbyn

'Inspirational' Corbyn offers blueprint for our party, say left-leaning Democrats

Corbyn and fatalism

Corbyn Won Because Hope Turned the Unthinkable Into Reality by Sam Kriss

Dean Baker on employment policies

Economic Populism Doesn't Have to Involve More Government by Dean Baker

Cooper on suburbanites and Dems

Comfortable suburbanites will not save the Democratic Party by Ryan Cooper

less educated voters

The Democrats Lost the ‘Poorly Educated’ and They Need Them Back by Martin Longman
May 31, 2017

Single-payer Democrats?

The Single-Payer Party? Democrats Shift Left on Health Care by ALEXANDER BURNS and JENNIFER MEDINA

Marvin Goodfriend by Klein; Miles Kimball on neg. rates

One of Trump’s potential Fed picks is a huge fan of negative interest rates by Matthew C Klein

How and Why to Eliminate the Zero Lower Bound: A Reader’s Guide by Miles Kimball

Cassidy on Corbyn

JEREMY CORBYN IS SURGING BY USING BERNIE SANDERS’S PLAYBOOK by John Cassidy

Krugman: we don't need stimulus

The Priming of Mr. Donald Trump by Krugman

Mind Your Own Business by Barbara Ehrenreich

Mind Your Own Business by Barbara Ehrenreich

GS on increasing wages

Goldman: U.S. Wages Catching Up With Productivity Is a 'Sobering' Prospect by Luke Kawa

Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche

"He's just the kind of person, if he saw somebody being mistreated, he would have spoken up," GhaneaBassiri said.

The Oregonian/OregonLive

Clinton TV ads policy free

Study: Hillary Clinton’s TV ads were almost entirely policy-free by Jeff Stein

Dayen on HAMP

A Needless Default by David Dayen (February 8, 2015)

The administration’s foreclosure relief program was designed to help bankers, not homeowners. That disgrace will haunt Democrats.

technocratic liberalism

The Stuff of Politics by ROBBIE NELSON

Noah Smith on Fed survery

What Economic Policies Do Americans Need? Just Ask Them by Noah Smith