Category Archives: Democrats

The Gloves Are Off: Immigrants rights activist Jana Ivkovic has to fight

By Josh DuBose

May 14, 2018

LOS ANGELES – Jana Ivkovic is a self-professed pessimist. But the 37-year-old immigrants rights activist, herself a former Serbian émigré, doesn’t let skepticism stop her from challenging policies that threaten the city’s undocumented and documented immigrant community. read more

Budget Holes, Hype and Horror: Grover Norquist, Neera Tanden and Bill Bixby speak at The Washington Center

By Josh DuBose

January 9, 2018

WASHINGTON – Positioning the United States as the center for global investment is where Bloomberg contributor Tyler Cowen believes establishment Republicans and “Trumpian nationalists” move past their first few awkward dates and climb into bed together. In Trump’s Economic Revolution Is All About Investment, Cowen parses out why the Republican held government is so insistent on lowering the corporate tax rate to around 20 percent. read more

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Mark Lilla’s Mistake: How conservatives indulge “identity politics”

In The End of Identity Liberalism, author Mark Lilla argues that identity politics – the idea that meeting the different needs of individual cultures and groups bonds a broadly diverse electorate – will always lose elections because it creates, by its very nature, more discord than unity. read more

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