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  • Abolish the Senate. End the Electoral College. Pack the Court. Why the left can’t win without a new Constitution.

    08/15/2025 9:36:55 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 36 replies
    NYT ^ | 08 14 2025 | Hosted by Ross Douthat
    After the great rebuke of 2024, many Democrats seem to think their party needs to become more moderate. But there’s another theory potent on the American left that believes Donald Trump’s election shows not just that American democracy is in danger, but that it doesn’t really work at all. What the country needs isn’t just a new policy agenda; it might need the kind of constitutional revolution — from adding new states, to packing the Supreme Court — that some Democrats already flirted with under Joe Biden. That’s the kind of argument that my guest today, Osita Nwanevu, makes in...
  • A $1,000 per month cash handout would grow the economy by $2.5 trillion, new study says

    09/04/2017 11:04:34 PM PDT · by blueplum · 157 replies
    CNBC ^ | 02 September 2017 | Catherine Clifford
    Giving every adult in the United States a $1000 cash handout per month would grow the economy by $2.5 trillion by 2025, according to a new study on universal basic income. The report was released in August by the left-leaning Roosevelt Institute. Roosevelt research director Marshall Steinbaum, Michalis Nikiforos at Bard College's Levy Institute, and Gennaro Zezza at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio in Italy co-authored the study. [snip] These estimates are based on a universal basic income paid for by increasing the federal deficit. As part of the study, the researchers also calculated the effect to the...