Bob Lord 
It’s hard to find much to cheer about these days, but there is the Arizona Senate race. I love seeing justice done, but I especially love poetic justice. And maybe, just maybe, we could see a little of that in November. Flash back to 2018. An ailing, terminally ill John McCain, no longer physically able … Read more
Nearly eight years ago, I wrote this post: The Case for Socialism. That was long before a self-styled Democratic Socialist launched the first of two presidential campaigns. It was before a young member of the Socialist Alternative Party, running as a Democrat, upset an entrenched, corporate-owned incumbent, then gained the largest nationwide following of any … Read more
Well, they’re not entirely unsung, but the recognition seems to be falling short of what’s deserved. There has been considerable bumbling by elected leaders in responding to the coronavirus crisis. It starts at the top, of course, with Trump. But there have been failures at the state and local level as well. Mayors London Breed … Read more
[Note to BfAZ readers: This post by my IPS colleague, Chuck Collins, and me, which will be cross-posted at Inequality.org, is an intro to a briefing paper I just completed, making the case for a wealth tax. I invite you to click through to the briefing paper itself.] Conventional economic wisdom says a time of … Read more
My colleague, David Gordon, wrote an excellent post, Democracy faces its Greatest Test here and around the World During the Coronavirus, which I highly recommend. David’s analysis is, I believe, dead on. But I’d frame the challenge differently. In a recent op-ed, Was the Fed Just Nationalized?, monetary expert Ellen Brown quoted this dire warning … Read more