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Kirsty McNeill for LabourList: ‘Here’s what visiting the US taught me about why progressives win or lose’
02.09.2024
By Kirsty McNeill, PPC The Labour Party has one job in 2024: delivering Keir Starmer a majority that is deep, durable, disciplined and democratic. Deep because, to overcome our catastrophic 2019 result, we must bring over voters from every demographic and every corner of the country. Durable because Labour has to govern with a relentless…
Ritz for Forbes: Alarming CBO Report Shows Unprecedented Interest Costs Starting Next Year
02.08.2024
By Ben Ritz Just as two years of punishing inflation finally appears to have subsided, new projections from the Congressional Budget Office show another major economic problem on the rise. Thanks to excessive deficit spending that worsened inflation and the interest-rate hikes implemented by the Federal Reserve to bring it under control, the U.S. government is now…
Maag for The Hill: With fewer degree requirements, the federal government can break the ‘paper ceiling’
02.08.2024
By Taylor Maag and Michael Brickman Education has become one of America’s most significant dividing lines. Those with bachelor’s and advanced degrees have mostly prospered, while employment prospects, wages and advancement opportunities for those with less education have fallen. Yet, with so much else dividing our country, there is a growing bipartisan consensus that we must…
Marshall for The Hill: After fumbling border security, the immigration crisis is on Republicans
02.07.2024
By Will Marshall President Biden must feel like he can’t catch a break. Even as the nation’s cost-of-living crisis seems to be abating, another is rising to take its place: A record-breaking surge of illegal immigrants across America’s southern border. Recent polls show that immigration has either edged out inflation as U.S. voters’ top concern or is running…
Maag for RealClearEducation: Can Career Learning Bring America’s Young People Back to School?
02.05.2024
By Taylor Maag School absenteeism sky-rocketed post-pandemic: 6.5 million more students missed at least 10% or more of the 2021-22 school year than in 2017-18. This means 14.7 million students were chronically absent even after schools reopened from the pandemic. While preliminary data shows that absentee rates slightly decreased in the 2022-23 school year, truancy remains a serious concern…
Jacoby for Washington Monthly: How Ukranians Are Dealing with Republicans Dithering Over Military Aid
01.30.2024
By Tamar Jacoby Ukrainians reacted with surprising equanimity last week when Donald Trump all but clinched the Republican nomination for president by winning the New Hampshire primary. Most mainstream media outlets here in Kyiv treated the looming possibility of the 45th president’s return to office as a second-tier story, despite his hostility to Ukraine’s war for…
Ainsley for The New Liberal Podcast: How Labour got its groove back
01.26.2024
Why has the UK’s Labour Party been out of power for more than a decade? And why are they now heavily favored to win in 2024? Claire Ainsley is the former policy director for Labour leader Keir Starmer and current head of PPI’s Project on Center Left Renewal, and she joins the podcast to talk…
Marshall for The Hill: Progressives turn a blind eye to Houthi terrorism to criticize US retaliation
01.26.2024
By Will Marshall As a U.S.-led coalition steps up airstrikes to suppress Houthi attacks on international shipping, progressives are accusing President Biden of going back on his promise to keep America out of “forever wars” in the Middle East. It’s a bum rap that confuses cause and effect. What’s the greater evil, an outbreak of maritime terrorism or the United…
Jacoby for The Hill: As the mood darkens in Ukraine, the majority still oppose negotiation
01.25.2024
By Tamar Jacoby From 2014, when Vladimir Putin first invaded Ukraine, until a few months ago, Western opinion was virtually unanimous. “Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine,” the saying went, meaning there could be no negotiations with Russia and no concessions except those agreed to by Ukrainians. Today, that consensus is eroding. No one is talking about negotiating…
