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El-Sayed’s Challenge: Overcoming ‘Otherness’

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
If the economy is the issue, he can win Michigan in November. El-Sayed's overriding message has to be that his election will help end Trump’s disastrous control of the economy. Halley Stevens concession and endorsement; Mallory McMorrow endorsement.

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America’s Workers Deserve a Four Day Week

Juliet B. Schor Political Economy Research Institute
The Game Changers project presents policymakers with bold, new ideas to build a stronger, fairer, greener, and more inclusive economy for all Americans. See the website (https://peri.umass.edu/gamechangers/) for more Game Changer ideas.

The Progressives Propelling Abdul El-Sayed Forward in Michigan

Eli Day The American Prospect
Activists are building a political home for the Michigan Senate candidate’s anti-corruption, anti-war populist message. Following Sen. Gary Peters’s announced retirement, Michigan’s open seat has become the most hotly contested race in the country.

On Tax Day, Mamdani Taxed the Rich

Whitney Curry Wimbish The American Prospect
The mayor, his supporters, and public opinion convinced their previously reluctant governor to agree to a tax on the second (or third, fourth, fifth, etc.) homes of their city’s nonresident rich. The tax on international billionaires is a huge win...

Did Trump Really Fix NAFTA?

Adam S. Hersh Economic Policy Institute
Trump replaced NAFTA with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement in 2020. But his USMCA has so far failed to make trade work for North American workers.

Will the Court Rule for Trump or for Wall Street?

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
As the Supreme Court now considers whether Trump can take over the Federal Reserve, we lose either way. In what may be its most difficult challenge: To whom does it owe its ultimate submission and greatest obeisance: Donald Trump, or Wall Street?

Raising Taxes on the Ultrarich

Josh Bivens Economic Policy Institute
A necessary first step to restore faith in American democracy and the public sector

The First Politically Viable Wealth Tax

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
A proposed 2026 California ballot measure would tax billionaires’ fortunes to fund imperiled health access for 15 million state Medicaid recipients.

Mexican President Sheinbaum’s Triumphant Year One

Kurt Hackbarth Jacobin
From deftly handling hostile Donald Trump to securing real economic gains for workers, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum ends her first year in office with remarkable 80% approval rating. Now the real fight for Mexico’s economic sovereignty begins
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