K. Sabeel Rahman Journalist Profile

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Rewiring Regulation: Regulatory Review for a New Political Economy

Nov 1, 2024 | rooseveltinstitute.org | K. Sabeel Rahman |Felicia Wong |Suzanne Kahn |Mike Konczal

IntroductionIn recent years, the executive branch has become an increasingly central focus for policymaking on both the left and the right. Among progressive advocates, there has been a growing attention to how executive action might help advance progressive priorities, from climate to racial and gender equity to imbalances of economic power, and more.
The Supreme Court will try to tank a Kamala Harris administration.

Aug 2, 2024 | slate.com | K. Sabeel Rahman

Skip to the content Jurisprudence Over the past month, the long-term prospects for American democracy have whipsawed dramatically. For much of that time, democracy’s prospects have looked dim.
The Supreme Court Will Try to Tank a Kamala Harris Administration. Here’s How She Can Fight Back.

Aug 2, 2024 | yahoo.com | K. Sabeel Rahman

Over the past month, the long-term prospects for American democracy have whipsawed dramatically. For much of that time, democracy’s prospects have looked dim. The Supreme Court’s unconscionable ruling on presidential immunity raises the specter of unchecked criminality in the executive branch, even as the ailing campaign of President Joe Biden contributed to the strengthening electoral position of former President and insurrectionist Donald Trump.
Building the Government We Need: A Framework for Democratic State Capacity

Jun 6, 2024 | rooseveltinstitute.org | K. Sabeel Rahman |Felicia Wong |Suzanne Kahn |Mike Konczal

IntroductionIn 2021, with the COVID-19 pandemic raging and the economy in free fall, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan, issuing billions of dollars of emergency economic relief. The bill included, among many other programs, directives for the Treasury Department to provide direct household economic support through a massive new Child Tax Credit.
Saving Bidenomics

Jan 4, 2024 | bostonreview.net | K. Sabeel Rahman

At a June 2023 assembly of business and community leaders in Chicago, President Biden outlined what has become a central theme of his reelection campaign. “Bidenomics,” the President declared, embracing the moniker for his economic policy agenda, represents a “fundamental break from the economic theory that has failed” for decades. The Reaganite commitment to unfettered market capitalism and an anemic public sector never delivered on the promise of equitable prosperity.
Building the Administrative State We Need, by K. Sabeel Rahman

Jun 29, 2023 | yalejreg.com | K. Sabeel Rahman

*This post is part of a symposium on Modernizing Regulatory Review. For other posts in the series, click here. It has been a pleasure to read the thoughtful commentary from scholars and practitioners in this Notice & Comment blog series on modernizing regulatory review.
The Productivist Era Has Begun

Jun 13, 2023 | democracyjournal.org | Felicia Wong |K. Sabeel Rahman

“Productivism” has arrived. Economist Dani Rodrik recently declared “a major re-orientation” toward an economics “that is rooted in production, work, and localism instead of finance, consumerism, and globalism.” After almost 40 years of neoliberalism’s markets-first, market-led growth, under which the entire elite political class in the United States came of age, we have turned a corner. Intellectually, productivism is a major new economic worldview.
Modernizing Regulatory Review

May 15, 2023 | theregreview.org | K. Sabeel Rahman

Recent Biden Administration reforms will better prepare the regulatory system to meet society’s challenges. Last month, the Biden Administration released a landmark set of proposed reforms to the regulatory review process. While the headlines often focus on substantive policy proposals and debates—such as climate change, immigration, and safety net programs—the behind-the-scenes regulatory process is central to how these policies are formulated and shaped.