This Washington Post “Wonkblog” piece looks at the damage inflicted on real people by Kansas’s mean-spirited and intellectually bankrupt obsession with reducing taxes under Tea Party governor Sam Brownback.

Former U.K Prime Minister Tony Blair shares his views on the current crisis of social democracy.

This insightful New York Times op-ed piece looks at the increasing balkanization of America into a globalist, socially liberal camp and a Christian, “America-first” camp. The implications for building a solidaristic social democracy in America are profound.

Writing on the Social Europe website, Karin Pettersson (political editor-in-chief at Aftonbladet, Scandinavia’s biggest daily newspaper and visiting professor at Harvard) offers a trenchant evaluation of today’s economic imbalances and calls for a greater commitment to core social democratic principles.

A brilliant summary of the defects of unregulated capitalism and a stirring encomium of the Nordic model of social democracy from Iceland’s former foreign affairs minister.

In this smart op-ed piece, centrist New York Times columnist David Brooks discusses the competing narratives vying for America’s soul and for her future. The Social Democrat wholly endorses Brook’s conclusion: that the only sane way forward is a model that “welcomes diversity, meritocracy, immigration and open trade” but also “invests massively in human capital, especiallly the young and those who suffer from the downsides of creative destruction.” In this community,” Brooks adds, “the poor boy and girl are enmeshed in care and cultivation,” and “everything is designed to arouse energy and propel social mobility.” Word!

Economist and former advisor to Vice President Joe Biden Jared Bernstein sees a growing consensus in the Democrat camp around bold social democratic proposals like universal child allowances, a government subsidized jobs program, an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit and higher minimum wage.

This insightful New York Times op-ed piece looks at the increasing balkanization of America into a globalist, socially liberal camp and a Christian, “America-first” camp. The implications for building a solidaristic social democracy in America are profound.

No, writes Marian Tupy in the Atlantic, Bernie is not a socialist, but a social democrat. (Wonder what the Bern would have to say about it?)

Governor Terry McAuliffe of Virginia is part of social democracy’s thin blue line in America, wielding his veto power against the state’s reactionary legislature.

In this Washington Post piece, The Nation editor Katrina vanden Huevel advocates a workers protection strategy to revive the party’s fortunes and points to some hopeful signs.

Columnist Clarence Page, writing in the Chicago Tribune, looks at events in Europe and makes a case for social democratic fundamentals in the U.S.

One of the central tenets of social democracy is laicism (a purely secular state): a West Virginia school district offers Bible classes in public schools.

This weekly update from The Equal Voice looks at how average Americans are faring under the Trump administration.

This Washington Post “Wonkblog” piece looks at the damage inflicted on real people by Kansas’s mean-spirited and intellectually bankrupt obsession with reducing taxes under Tea Party governor Sam Brownback.