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Dec 17, 2024 | 
businessandamerica.com | Justin Vassallo
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
liberalpatriot.com | Justin Vassallo
As the post-mortems of the Harris campaign pile up, the Democratic Party is fighting over its strategy, policies, and overall mission in ways not seen since the Reagan revolution. The battle lines, however, do not always neatly run between the progressive left and the liberal establishment.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
unherd.com | Justin Vassallo
Donald TrumpEconomic historyNAFTANew DealPoliticsProtectionismTariffsTradeUSWTO Recent speculation that Donald Trump’s billionaire cabinet would lead to a more orthodox consensus on global trade came to halt earlier this week, when Trump promised new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
compactmag.com | Justin Vassallo
Taking Back Control?:States and State Systems After GlobalismBy Wolfgang StreeckVerso, 416 pages, $34.95The most significant transformation in politics on both sides of the Atlantic in the last 20 years has been the left’s acceptance, even embrace, of globalization.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
compactmag.com | Justin Vassallo
Donald Trump’s victory has blown apart the Democratic coalition. The non-college majority—a good proxy for the working class—sided decisively with Trump in the Rust Belt. Kamala Harris’s disappointing showing in the Sun Belt, meanwhile, leaves no doubt that progressive strategists greatly overestimated the strength of a coalition that combined progressive younger urban voters and affluent suburbanites repulsed by Donald Trump’s character and his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Justin Vassallo
Making café-quality espresso drinks on a home machine used to take a lot of practice, but the best new models have made it so much easier. Better yet, you can get a machine that’s capable of making excellent drinks for well under $1,000. After more than 120 hours of research and testing, we think the Breville Bambino Plus is the best option for new and moderately skilled enthusiasts alike.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
unherd.com | Justin Vassallo
diverseEconomyLiberalismMarxismPhilosophySociety
A mere glance at the headlines underscores what most working people under 40 intuit.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Justin Vassallo
Few contemporary Democratic politicians have defied the odds like Ohio’s Sherrod Brown. In his bid to win a fourth term to the Senate, Brown evinces the same earthy determination that catapulted him to prominence in the House during the George W. Bush years. Then as now, Brown positioned himself as a voice for the underdog: unionized steel workers fighting for their pensions, low-wage service workers, those whose lives have been turned upside down by medical debt.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Justin Vassallo |Peter Quinn |Alexander Stern |George Scialabba
After a presidential election cycle once again defined by trench warfare in a few swing states, an unlikely insurgent in deep-red Nebraska could have a major impact on national politics come January. Dan Osborn, an independent candidate and union leader who led a strike at Kellogg’s Omaha plant in 2021, has gained momentum in his bid to unseat two-term Republican senator Deb Fischer.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
compactmag.com | Justin Vassallo
Since the pandemic, ordinary Americans’ perceptions of the economy have confounded liberal-leaning experts and commentators, who have hailed the US recovery as the envy of the industrialized world. Brought on by global supply-chain shocks, including China’s extended Covid lockdown, high inflation from mid-2021 through mid-2023 stoked voters’ fears of a broader cost-of-living crisis. Yet disinflation has been fairly steady for more than a year at no great cost to economic and the employment rate.
