Restoring Confidence in SCOTUS, the STOP Walmart Act, and Remedies for Big Tech

Following the Thanksgiving break, the Roosevelt Rundown will return on Friday, November 30. 1. Restoring Confidence in the Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) often makes final legal decisions for how our economy and democracy work, or don’t, for most Americans. Yet, today’s Supreme Court is facing a crisis of legitimacy.

Movement in the Midterms, the Start of a Blue Wave, and What We Miss When We Talk about Student Debt

The Roosevelt Rundown is an email series featuring the Roosevelt Institute’s top 5 stories of the week. 1. Movement in the Midterms Two years after Donald Trump was elected president, American voters returned to the polls in record numbers. “It didn’t deliver a tsunami-like blue wave,” writes Vox’s Emily Stewart. However, “[v]oter turnout in the

The Blue Wave Is Just Getting Started

Two years after the United States elected Donald Trump to the presidency—a wealthy reality TV star famously accused of assaulting multiple women, scamming his way into fortune, and whose campaign was built on racism and stoking the racial fear and resentment of white Americans—voters returned to the polls in record numbers, with record-breaking turnout from

Reclaiming Freedom, Putting Power at the Center of Antitrust, and the Google Walkout

The Roosevelt Rundown is an email series featuring the Roosevelt Institute’s top 5 stories of the week. 1. Reclaiming Freedom In an essay for Talking Points Memo, Roosevelt Vice President of Policy and Strategy Nell Abernathy and Fellow Mike Konczal outline why the current moment—as voters, in recognizing that existing economic rules and assumptions are

Not Buying It, a Matter of Concentration, and the $1 Trillion Question

The Roosevelt Rundown is an email series featuring the Roosevelt Institute’s top 5 stories of the week. 1. Not Buying It In a report published by the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group (VSG), Roosevelt President and CEO Felicia Wong explains what Americans really want from tax reform—and it’s not tax cuts for corporations and the

Higher Education Doesn’t Pay for Itself, the New NAFTA and Big Tech, and the Collapse of Sears

The Roosevelt Rundown is an email series featuring the Roosevelt Institute’s top 5 stories of the week. 1. Higher Education Doesn’t Pay for Itself As tuition has risen over the last several decades in the U.S., student loan debt has ballooned. In The Student Debt Crisis, Labor Market Credentialization, and Racial Inequality, Roosevelt Fellow Julie

The Erosion of America’s Social Contract, What Will Save Us, and Why Labor Is a Foreign Policy Issue

The Roosevelt Rundown is an email series featuring the Roosevelt Institute’s top 5 stories of the week. 1. The Erosion of America’s Social Contract… Recently, the Trump administration proposed “public charge,” a new rule that would make it exceedingly difficult for immigrants who have received public assistance to secure citizenship in the United States. For

Curbing Unchecked Power: Only Bold, New Ideas Can Save Us

Over the last few weeks, women across the country who I’ve talked to all expressed a feeling of anxiety and terror as we witnessed America’s institutions edge closer and closer to what feels like an actual breaking point. As we ripped open our deepest wounds to lay bare for society the true, real experience of

New National Director of the Network, NAFTA 2.0, and Amazon’s Minimum Wage

The Roosevelt Rundown is an email series featuring the Roosevelt Institute’s top 5 stories of the week. 1. New National Director of the Network On Monday, the Roosevelt Institute announced Katie Kirchner as the new director of the Roosevelt Network. As Deputy Director of the Network, Kirchner helped develop and elevate the voices of a

A Progressive Solution to Antitrust, Waiting out Trump on Trade, and Buybacks in the Billions

The Roosevelt Rundown is an email series featuring the Roosevelt Institute’s top 5 stories of the week. 1. Progressives Call for a Revival of Antitrust On Tuesday, the Roosevelt Institute and the Great Democracy Initiative (GDI) released a legislative blueprint to combat America’s second Gilded Age. GDI Co-Founder and Director of Policy Ganesh Sitaraman argues