Why Not Talk About Recession Contingency For 2020?

Courtesy of TradiMo. “I don’t think [economic] expansions just die of old age,” said Janet Yellen, which was followed by Ben Bernanke saying, “I like to say they get murdered.”…

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The Young Don’t Vote and Bernie Won’t Change That

Photo courtesy of The New Yorker. With New Hampshire now behind us, the Democratic primary field seems to have narrowed down significantly. Septuagenarians Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden, have wasted…

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The Battle Hymn of the Oligarch

Image courtesy of Tom Gralish/Philadelphia Inquirer. The apocalypse had arrived. The New Hampshire Democratic primary was close, and the Iowa caucus an abject disaster. Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight ominously forecasted that…

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John Delaney’s “Pragmatic Idealism”

Nearly one month from the Iowa caucus, thirteen Democrats have dropped out of the presidential race--mayors, governors, and U.S. Senators among them. There are still fifteen (!) left, including the first prominent Democrat to announce their candidacy: former Congressman John Delaney of Maryland. As of this writing, Delaney has struggled to break ground in the polls, but he has recently redoubled his efforts in Iowa in the hopes that his brand of “pragmatic idealism” will eventually catch fire. In The Zeitgeist recently sat down with Delaney to talk national service, infrastructure, foreign policy--and that box jump video.

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Beto Luck Next Time?

After the 2018 midterm election, Beto O’Rourke was a rising star in the Democratic party, but the Texas native’s career has since fizzled out. I write this as someone who still supports Beto O’Rourke, but also as someone who is choosing to be realistic.

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Can the Democrats Fix America’s Student Debt Crisis?

In their respective campaigns to beat President Donald Trump in the next election cycle, Democratic candidates have proposed disruptive legislative ideas as part of their campaign slogans addressing America’s out of control student-debt ($1.5 trillion), largest outstanding consumer debt other than mortgages.

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Are There Too Many Candidates for 2020?

There's a lot of presidential candidates. Photo courtesy of Vox.com. With Beto O’Rourke’s recent announcement of his bid for president, a staggering 14 Democrats have thrown their hat into the…

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