The Economic Expansion That Began In 2001,

We Have A Lot Of Evidence On What Happens When You Raise The Minimum Wage. And The Evidence Is Overwhelmingly Positive: Hiking The Minimum Wage Has Little Or No Adverse Effect On Employment While Significantly Increasing Workers' Earnings.

On The Political As On The Economic Front It's Important Not To Fall Into The "not As Bad As" Trap. High Unemployment Isn't O.k. Just Because It Hasn't Hit 1933 Levels; Ominous Political Trends Shouldn’t Be Dismissed Just Because There’s No Hitler In Sight.

Many People ... Prefer To Describe Themselves As Progressives Rather Than Liberals. To Some Extent That's A Response To The Decades-long Propaganda Campaign Conducted By Movement Conservatives, Which Has Been Quite Successful In Making Americans Disdain The Word Liberal But Much Less Successful In Reducing Support For Liberal Policies.

I Know That When I Look At Today’s Mexicans And Central Americans, They Seem To Me Fundamentally The Same As My Grandparents Seeking A Better Life In America. On The Other Side, However, Open Immigration Can’t Coexist With A Strong Social Safety Net; If You’re Going To Assure Health Care And A Decent Income To Everyone, You Can’t Make That Offer Global. So Democrats Have Mixed Feelings About Immigration; In Fact, It’s An Agonizing Issue.

Something Terrible Has Happened To The Soul Of The Republican Party. We've Gone From Bad Economic Doctrine. We've Even Gone Beyond Selfishness And Special Interests. At This Point We're Talking About A State Of Mind That Takes Positive Glee In Inflicting Further Suffering Upon The Already Miserable.