Paul Pierson is the John Gross Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley. LET THEM EAT TWEETS: HOW THE RIGHT RULES IN AN AGE OF EXTREME INEQUALITY is one of several books he has written with Jacob Hacker, who is director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and a Political Science Professor at Yale University. Their other books include American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer–and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class; Off Center: The Republican Revolution and The Erosion of American Democracy. Professor Pierson has also written many other books including the prize winning, Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher and the Politics of Retrenchment.
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Wisconsin court upholds Republican laws curbing powers of Democratic officials https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/09/wisconsin-court-upholds-laws-curbing-powers-of-democratic-officials
Julian Zelizer on the rise and fall of Newt Gingrich: The man who was Trump before Trump https://www.salon.com/2020/07/14/julian-zelizer-on-the-rise-and-fall-of-newt-gingrich-the-man-who-was-trump-before-trump/
Joe Biden Expresses An Openness To Eliminating The Senate Filibuster https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-filibuster_n_5f0dcfa1c5b648c301eff41e
Democrats Will Be Lost Without the Senate https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/senate-democrats-biden/
Grover Norquist’s Anti-Tax Group Took Money From the Paycheck Protection Program https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/grover-norquist-ppp-coronavirus.html?via=recirc_engaged
Sanders: “Richest 1 Percent Is Responsible for 70 Percent of All Unpaid Taxes” https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-richest-1-percent-is-responsible-for-70-percent-of-all-unpaid-taxes/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=a7771b1b-9aeb-4d90-aa38-cec6e4aaf0ef
Dozens of Trump veterans cash out on K St. despite ‘drain the swamp’ vow https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/trump-administration-veteranslobbying-348273
Chief Justice John Roberts Is Carrying Out Corporate America’s Long-Term Plan Perfectly https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/07/john-roberts-supreme-court-chief-justice-chamber-commerce
How Could Human Nature Have Become This Politicized? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/opinion/trump-politics-psychology.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
Unpresidented https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/07/23/trump-unpresident-unredeemed-promise/
Trump Has Emergency Powers We Aren’t Allowed to Know About https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/opinion/trump-coronavirus-emergency-powers.html?searchResultPosition=1
What 11 Republican senators had to say about Trump’s racism https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/06/silent-republican-lawmakers-are-handmaidens-white-supremacy/
The Day the White Working Class Turned Republican https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/books/review/the-hardhat-riot-david-paul-kuhn.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces_desk_filter&block=editors_picks_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=108758887&impression_id=284217827&index=0&pgtype=Article®ion=footer&req_id=857707508&surface=home-featured