Ilana Novick
Ilana Novick is a contributing writer to the PolicyShop blog at Demos,a progressive think tank based in New York City.
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Views Thursday, January 23, 2020 Oxfam Report Contains Dire Warning for Global Capitalism “I don’t think 500 billionaires are the reason we’re in trouble,” former Vice President Joe Biden told an audience at the Brookings Institute in 2018. It was a few months before he’d officially declare his candidacy for president, but Biden’s position was clear: “The folks at the top aren’t bad... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 14, 2020 Joe Biden Has a Serious Problem With Social Security In the 2000 presidential campaign, Al Gore was roundly mocked on “ Saturday Night Live ” and elsewhere for promising multiple times during a presidential debate that unlike his Republican opponent, he would fight to preserve Social Security by putting it in a “lockbox.” The mockery was for what... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 07, 2020 Are Establishment Democrats Running Out of Ways to Sabotage Bernie Sanders? Bernie Sanders is surging in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary polls , and, as CNN analyst Harry Enten wrote Sunday, “It’s becoming more apparent” that the Vermont senator and former Vice President Joe Biden “are the candidates to beat .” Sanders, according to Enten, has an extra advantage... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 30, 2019 'Bombshell' Glosses Over the Horrors of Fox News “You will be muzzled,” the lawyer for Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman) warns her at the end of “Bombshell,” (directed by Jay Roach) as the former Fox News anchor signs a $20 million settlement in a sexual harassment suit against her former boss, Roger Ailes. She might just as easily have been... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 17, 2019 Media Taking Notice as Sanders Surges in New Polls Bernie Sanders refuses to be counted out of the Democratic primary field, and, based on two recent polls, it appears that voters are backing him up. After he was hospitalized for a heart attack in October, pundits questioned whether Sanders should continue his campaign. The Washington Post observed... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 04, 2019 Bernie Sanders Has the Backing of Leftists Worldwide Leftist leaders from the United Kingdom to South America have a clear ally in the U.S. presidential election. In a crowded presidential primary, Bernie Sanders has distinguished himself from centrists like Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg and even fellow progressive Elizabeth Warren by calling the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 12, 2019 Bernie Sanders Has More Diverse Support Than You Think Suburban women, as Nicole Goodkind writes in Fortune , “[were] crucial to President Donald Trump’s election in 2016 and will be equally crucial to his reelection campaign next year.” Recent polling and actual election results, however, show Trump cannot take them for granted, and the same can be... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 06, 2019 How Warren’s 'Medicare for All' Plan Hurts the Cause Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren agree that the American health care system causes harm to the people it claims to help. They also believe it needs massive change, and that a “Medicare for All” plan is the best avenue to achieve that. Their sharpest disagreements are over... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 22, 2018 EPA Coal Plan Could Cause Up to 1,400 Premature Deaths Annually (and Trump's EPA Knows It But Doesn't Care) The Environmental Protection Agency released new rules regulating pollution levels for coal-burning power plants this week, and buried beneath its complex policies is a troubling statistic. As The New York Times reported Tuesday, “The plan would increase carbon emissions and lead to up to 1,400... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 13, 2013 State Tax Systems Need to Become More Progressive, Not Less State tax systems, according to a new report from the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, take a far larger share of income from their lowest income residents than they do from the wealthy, exacerbating income inequality within and between states, encouraging the wealthy to move to low tax states, and even worse, threatening the effectiveness of federal and state programs designed to ease the tax burden for the poorest families. Read more |