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Actual federal commitment will be only a small fraction of the $1.5 trillion cited by the US president in the State of the Union address

For America to improve the balance, the new president will have to do a lot more

Behind the internal fights, a new economic consensus with the potential to unite both the Hillary and Bernie wings of the party is in the offing

As the crucial US midterms draw near, scaremongering has peaked, but we must not let the politics of fear kill our hopes

We heavily discount the future. Add to that climate change and lack of functional governance, and that’s recipe for a huge crisis