Julian Bond’s Path And The Crossroads In Front Of Us Today
I have been thinking a lot about the incomparable Julian Bond the last couple of days, but as he would no doubt be saying, in spite of...
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Mike Lux
- Jun 14, 2015
- 3 min
SEC Commissioner: We Shouldn’t Be Promoting Investor Confidence
A leading Republican regulator, SEC Commissioner Michael Piwowar, said in a speech to Cato recently that the goal of the Securities and...
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Mike Lux
- Jun 9, 2015
- 5 min
Modern Conservatives Hate 'It's A Wonderful Life'
I wrote on Friday about the way the modern conservative movement, and the Republican party which is owned by it, have devolved into a...
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Mike Lux
- May 30, 2015
- 1 min
ALEC: Paying For Corporate Lobbying With Our Tax Dollars
My careful and objective analysis, based on 35 years in political life, is that ALEC is one of the sleaziest organizations in modern...
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Mike Lux
- May 28, 2015
- 4 min
Is the TPP Okay with Slavery? Really?
So the fast track plan to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership has run into a new wrinkle after an amendment passed in the Senate debate:...
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Mike Lux
- May 19, 2015
- 5 min
A Libertarian Dream: The 'Sharing Economy'
Regulatory agencies do a ton of hearings and other discussions and events that don’t get a lot of attention at the time, but turn out, in...
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Mike Lux
- May 18, 2015
- 3 min
Trade and the Enforcement Issue
The trade debate is a thoroughly engrossing saga full of intriguing story lines, as both parties find themselves in civil wars as the...
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Mike Lux
- May 4, 2015
- 2 min
Exciting Ideas Driving Progressive Organizing
There is a lot of great thinking about policy that is driving progressive movement organizing right now. While policy discussion in the...
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Mike Lux
- Apr 27, 2015
- 4 min
Senators Warren and Brown: Time to Let the Public in on The TPP
This letter from Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown sets the perfect tone for the debate on the TPP. It is respectful while at the same...
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Mike Lux
- Apr 21, 2015
- 3 min
White House Trade Strategy: Talk Progressive, Use Wall Street to Negotiate the Deal
At the Stop Fast Track Rally yesterday, AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka talked about the White House trying to undermine labor solidarity...
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Mike Lux
- Apr 17, 2015
- 3 min
Elizabeth Warren's Comprehensive Wall Street Reform Agenda
Elizabeth Warren has given her fair share of great speeches, and has written some outstanding legislation on reforming Wall Street, but...
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Mike Lux
- Mar 3, 2015
- 8 min
Winning Marathons While Running Uphill
It is easy to get discouraged about the American political scene. Billionaires and big business keep spending absurd amounts on buying up...
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Mike Lux
- Feb 28, 2015
- 3 min
Larry Scanlon: A Progressive Battler
The progressive community lost one of its toughest and smartest fighters yesterday. Larry died in a car crash on a trip to Florida, and...
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Mike Lux
- Dec 24, 2014
- 4 min
Pulling the Princes From Their Thrones
“He has pulled down the princes from from their thrones and exalted the lowly. The hungry he has filled with good things, the rich sent...
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Mike Lux
- Dec 23, 2014
- 5 min
A Progressive Populism That Works
There is a lot of talk in Democratic party circles about populism (which among Democrats is generally of a more progressive nature) vs...
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Mike Lux
- Dec 10, 2014
- 2 min
Financial Collapse: The Sequel?
Wall Street lobbyists have snuck into the budget package an amendment that would repeal the part of Dodd-Frank that reins in the...
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Mike Lux
- Dec 3, 2014
- 3 min
Singularly Bad Idea: Wall Street Taking Over Public Education
Hedge fund CEOs and various kinds of slick venture capitalists see tapping the public education “market” — the pool of public dollars...
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Mike Lux
- Nov 21, 2014
- 1 min
President Snow And Mitch McConnell: The Power Hunger Games
Okay, so the elections were really awful. We have a lot of very serious work to do in the progressive movement. But sometimes when things...
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Mike Lux
- Oct 14, 2014
- 2 min
Boeing: Taking Taxpayer Dollars And Breaking Promises
Seeing as how it is just three weeks prior to the elections, I very rarely would write about anything else right now, but I just have to...
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Mike Lux
- Aug 14, 2014
- 2 min
Subsidies for Big Business: Why Are We Doing This Again?
One area where a lot of us populist progressives agree with at least the rhetoric of the Tea Party is the issue of subsidies to big...
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