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Can Oakland’s New Leaders Save Its Schools and Port?

Ken Epstein, Kitty Kelly Epstein Convergence
Candidates who pledged to make Oakland work for everyone swept the November elections. They face two huge hurdles to making that real: proposals to close more schools, and to build a stadium plus luxury housing at the Port of Oakland.

Bringing the Supply Chain Back Home

Robert Kuttner New York Review of Books
Is Biden ready to insist that national economic planning is not just ideologically permissible but urgently necessary?

Invest In the Public Now

Zephyr Teachout Albany Times Union
New York’s economic development policy was all about developing the pocketbooks of campaign donors and leaving working class and poor New Yorkers behind, cutting out small businesses, favoring cronies, leaving communities struggling for resources.

The Public Sector We Need

Jeff Faux Dissent Magazine
To have any chance of implementing popular left-wing ideas, we need to restore the capacity of democratic government to serve working people.
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