I keep getting asked to explain this piece or hearing from others who are responding to my follow-up this morning without having read the piece it was based on. So I’m reupping my post about wage stagnation, the Democratic party and the dearth of policy initiatives the latter has to deal with the former.
Thanks for all the thoughtful replies you sent about my piece on Democratic politics and the seemingly unscalable cliff face of wage stagnation that has afflicted the country for roughly four decades. I want to follow up on that post by posing a troubling possibility. What if there is simply nothing we can do?
Is Joni Ernst ready to pick up the Mantle of the Mayor of CrazyTown from Michele Bachmann after her years of glory in the House? More than you can you ever imagine.
Man points rifle at teen daughter after game of Battleship goes wrong. “The girl tried to leave the trailer where they were playing, but the man dragged her back by her hair and pointed the loaded rifle at her head.”
We’ve known for decades that the FBI waged a campaign of harassment against Martin Luther King which culminated in attempts to goad him to commit suicide or face public revelations about sexual liaisons the Bureau had uncovered through pervasive surveillance. We’ve also known for years that there was a 1964 letter to King leveling this threat. Until now though we’ve known about the letter but only in a highly redacted form. Now the full letter is available. Jarring but important to see.
One reason the GOP is making so much noise about the surprise climate change deal with China is that the lack of action by China has long been a central line of attack on any US efforts to take action on carbon emissions. So long as China wasn’t moving, what difference would it make if the US moved, other than to further disadvantage US business? At least that’s how the GOP argument went.
Climate Desk has a great reel up showing just how prevalent this line of attack was from Republicans.
That New York doctor who came down with Ebola after returning from West Africa now has a clean bill of health and is being – properly – lauded as a hero by the Mayor.
Yesterday I discussed the seemingly intractable problem of wage stagnation for the great majority of Americans. This article looks at a different dimension of the problem, or what for some is the solution: how those with sufficient education are escaping the wealth gap by fleeing struggling towns for more economically vibrant cities.
In case you missed it, my take on the real challenge facing Democrats, which is getting almost no discussion after last Tuesday’s drubbing.
Like I said, the immigration executive order is why they impeach the President over. Now they’re saying it.