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    Oren Cass

    Oren Cass is the executive director of American Compass and author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America.

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    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      US budget
      Republicans are misremembering their record of ‘fiscal discipline’

      Presidential hopefuls criticising the expansion of national debt under Trump should think again

    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      US manufacturing
      Rebuilding US industry via green transition makes no sense

      The US needs an industrial finance authority with a long-term commitment to drive both public and private capital

      Electrician apprentices, a man and a woman, practice working on a programmable logic controller at the Kentuckiana Electrical Apprenticeship and Training trade school in Louisville, Kentucky,
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      US immigration
      US Republicans could finally win the argument on immigration

      Illegal border crossings have quadrupled since Joe Biden became president

      Asylum seekers in New York. More than 100,000 migrants have arrived in the city over the past year
    • Monday, 14 August, 2023
      US-China relations
      US industry is getting its way on China

      Biden administration officials were keen to stress the limited scope of new rules announced in last week’s executive order

      Ewan White illustration of a hand putting a Chinese flag in a paper shredder, but on the other side a US dollar note comes out shredded.
    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      US politics & policy
      ‘Freedom conservatism’ is much ado about nothing

      Reheating stale free-market dogma does nothing to address the challenges facing today’s American right

      Black and white image of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher smiling
    • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
      LexUS society
      US incomes: American way of thrive triggers sticker shock Premium content

      Economic indicators suggest the country is more prosperous than 50 years ago but more Americans feel pessimistic

      A shopper carries an Insignia Roku TV television
    • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
      US politics & policy
      On America’s ramshackle railroads, Republicans concede the limits of the market

      A new bill has made concrete the debate over the role of government regulation

      A derailed Norfolk Southern train burns in East Palestine, Ohio. The risks of trains carrying hazardous materials are not something the free market will provide incentives to address
    • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
      US politics & policy
      Joe Biden’s chips choices undermine bipartisan industrial initiatives

      The White House is discrediting its promotion of domestic semiconductor production by linking it to childcare

    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      US economy
      Ordinary Americans are counting the cost of thriving

      Economic data disguises just how hard it has become to sustain a middle-class lifestyle

      Homes in California, where an American man working the typical full-time job would need 73 weeks’ wages per year to support a middle-class lifestyle
    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Republican Party US
      Ferment of change lurks in Republican chaos

      Disarray over electing US House Speaker disguises emergence of fresh thinking to replace outdated paradigms

      US House leader Kevin McCarthy with a GOP logo and the Capitol Hill building in the background
    • Monday, 17 October, 2022
      Employment
      Skills gaps will force companies to do right by their compatriots

      Employers who profited from cheap foreign labour cannot now gripe at having to train local workers

      Two factory workers
    • Sunday, 14 August, 2022
      US politics & policy
      The Chips Act debate shows how far the Republicans have moved

      Rebuilding America’s industrial base is superseding traditional economic doctrine

      Joe Biden sits at a desk on the South Lawn of the White House surrounded by people as signs the Chips and Science Act of 2022
    • Monday, 11 July, 2022
      Climate change
      The climate crisis is no excuse for backsliding on democracy

      For progressives, the US Supreme Court’s EPA ruling should have been a teachable moment

      Climate activists rally outside as the Supreme Court hears from coal companies and their allies who are trying to gut the Clean Air Act and block climate action
    • Sunday, 1 May, 2022
      US-China trade dispute
      Cutting China tariffs will offer no respite from rising prices

      US policymakers must stand firm on the need to confront Beijing and rebalance global trade

      US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in 2019
    • Monday, 21 March, 2022
      US-China trade dispute
      Republican stance on free markets is shifting when it comes to China

      Despite the priority traditionally given to the free flow of capital, many now argue that Beijing should be the exception

      Senator Tom Cotton at a podium
    • Monday, 31 January, 2022
      Corporate governance
      Why the US right wants to put workers in the boardroom

      A Republican bill that proposes to give labour a new voice is a challenge to vested interests on left and right

      Bicycle Corporation Of America employees assemble tires at a Kent Bicycles production facility in Manning, South Carolina
    • Wednesday, 22 December, 2021
      Republican Party US
      A battle for the GOP’s future is under way

      The Republicans must move beyond the dog-eared 1980s playbook of tax cuts and deregulation if they are to succeed

      Virginia governor-elect Glenn Youngkin was helped on the campaign trail by former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, who is positioning herself for a run for president
    • Sunday, 5 September, 2021
      Unions
      American labour unions should stop playing politics

      Workers are much more interested in bargaining than in activism

      A union member demonstrates outside an Amazon warehouse in Alabama. The US labour movement’s big problem is that it no longer serves the interests of working-class Americans
    • Sunday, 30 May, 2021
      Big tech
      Curtailing big tech requires much more than breaking it up

      The digital age has transformed civilisation, but policymakers remain one step behind

      An Amazon worker scans a package. Policymakers need to disaggregate the Big Tech debate into its constituent parts
    • Thursday, 25 March, 2021
      Capitalism
      The US needs to rediscover the meaning of investment

      Fortunes are made in financial markets without benefiting the real economy

    • Monday, 1 February, 2021
      US politics & policy
      Joe Biden should be doing more that really helps workers

      US president’s focus on climate change and racial equity fails to tackle economic imbalances

    • Wednesday, 23 December, 2020
      US politics & policy
      Complacency and wasteful spending blight US higher education

      Forgiving billions of dollars of student debt is a bad idea

      Higher education costs more than $30,000 per student per year in the US, roughly twice as much as in Germany or France
    • Monday, 16 November, 2020
      US presidential election 2020
      The US is not massed on opposite sides of a political divide

      Biden’s nation is Trump’s nation and Obama’s nation, too

    • Tuesday, 13 October, 2020
      US politics & policy
      US presidential candidates are ignoring ordinary voters’ needs

      For workers in 2020, the choice is ‘none of the above’

    • Thursday, 3 September, 2020
      US politics & policy
      Republican party battles over its post-Trumpian soul

      An ideological contest rages between Reaganite libertarians and post-Trump conservatives

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