Greg Marx

Missed this? Over the last generation, U.S. economic life has undergone a pair of parallel transformations: greater pressure on both parents to work full-time in order to provide a “middle-class” life for their families, together with a reshaping of the rules governing the economy often propelled by free market principles. So Remapping Debate spoke with a range of right-leaning policy thinkers to ask about the economic pressures facing families. What, if anything, could be done about it?

Critics question why the SEC is announcing a re-examination of small business regulation when parts of the reform effort are incomplete, in some cases due to limited resources.

The story explored how the latest Republican proposal to privatize Medicare might affect the 2012 campaign, but failed to describe how the plan would work, or what its substantive impact would be. As such, it did not succeed even at the level of horse race analysis. It's enough to make you wonder: Who is this stuff written for, anyway?

In the wake of a high-profile Harvard report, vocational education — or as it is now generally known, career and technical education — is back on the policy agenda. But much of the debate about “the new vo-tech” assumes that American students can’t be prepared to start careers at the age of 18. What’s behind the idea that post-secondary education is essential for today’s workplace? And what might a model that didn’t depend on it look like?

New York Times picture of the American economy as a "victim" of various forces, including newly rising oil prices, leaves out failure of past and present policy-makers to address energy and other challenges.

New York Times picture of the American economy as a "victim" of various forces, including newly rising oil prices, leaves out failure of past and present policy-makers to address energy and other challenges.

Pundits and policy-makers like to tout more education as the solution to stagnant incomes or widening inequality. But a closer look suggests that “the education answer” is incomplete.

A poll question featuring constrained choices prompts unsupported press claims, but other surveys suggest that public support for government spending remains strong.

Last week’s proposal from a group of Republicans in the House of Representatives to slash federal spending by more than $2 trillion over 10 years includes a proposal that could strip away federal funds for research on an array of energy-related projects, and potentially make it harder for new technologies to reach the marketplace.