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Oren Cass

Oren Cass is the executive director of American Compass and author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America.
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    US manufacturing
    Trump can bend Biden’s industrial policy to suit him

    America appears on the cusp of an era of large-scale domestic investment in areas from semiconductors to energy

    María Hergueta illustration of Trump and Biden standing on a seesaw balancing on a cog
  • Sunday, 10 November, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Democrats do not know how to talk to young men — and it cost them

    The Harris campaign failed to engage with these voters as citizens with agency

    Ben Hickey illustration of a figure with a red MAGA hat walking into the sunset.
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    US politics & policy
    What if honesty really is the best policy in politics?

    Data suggests Americans can handle the truth if politicians are willing to tell it

  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    US politics & policy
    US union members and leaders are not always on the same political page

    The data behind the Teamsters’ refusal to endorse a candidate may be more widespread than we think

    Flanked by labor union leaders, Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to union workers during a campaign event
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    The problem with empty US campaign promises

    Both Harris and Trump seem determined not to be pinned down on policy

    Kamala Harris and Donald Trump
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Both parties have a chance to appeal to American workers — but will they take it?

    Political elites are pulling Republicans and Democrats away from the voters they need to win over

    A man standing at a podium punches the air while a woman standing behind him claps and a crowd cheers
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    US politics & policy
    A new Republican future is emerging — the return of actual conservatism

    JD Vance’s speech was unlike anything heard from the podium of a Republican National Convention in a generation

    JD Vance and his wife Usha on stage at the convention
  • Sunday, 23 June, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Reality is forcing a shift in America’s tax and spend debate

    US conservatives are moving away from the old orthodoxy on how to balance deficits and revenues

  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    US society
    It’s conservatives that should be storming the ivory tower

    Universities depend on taxpayer money to survive, and they are wasting those funds

    An undergraduate commencement ceremony at the Viterbi School of Engineering in Los Angeles
  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    Republican Party US
    How Republicans learnt to love bigger government

    A growing body on the right now believe that Medicare and other programmes must not be cut at all

    A nurse checks a patient at a hospital in New Jersey. Only one in five Republicans say they’d like to see the government do less to provide ‘medical care for those who need help affording insurance’
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Among US conservatives, the dial is finally shifting on welfare

    But older anti-government institutions still need to realise that the mistakes of the 1960s are not being repeated

  • Thursday, 11 January, 2024
    US economy
    The elite misunderstands American globalisation grievances

    New research bears little resemblance to assumptions about how the US population feels about China and the economy

    Donald Trump
  • Sunday, 10 December, 2023
    US politics & policy
    China challenge is too much for Republican market fundamentalism

    Defeat on outward-bound investment legislation shows significant change in the party

  • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
    US budget
    Republicans are misremembering their record of ‘fiscal discipline’

    Presidential hopefuls criticising the expansion of national debt under Trump should think again

  • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
    US manufacturing
    Rebuilding US industry via green transition makes no sense

    The US needs an industrial finance authority with a long-term commitment to drive both public and private capital

    Electrician apprentices, a man and a woman, practice working on a programmable logic controller at the Kentuckiana Electrical Apprenticeship and Training trade school in Louisville, Kentucky,
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    US immigration
    US Republicans could finally win the argument on immigration

    Illegal border crossings have quadrupled since Joe Biden became president

    Asylum seekers in New York. More than 100,000 migrants have arrived in the city over the past year
  • Monday, 14 August, 2023
    US-China relations
    US industry is getting its way on China

    Biden administration officials were keen to stress the limited scope of new rules announced in last week’s executive order

    Ewan White illustration of a hand putting a Chinese flag in a paper shredder, but on the other side a US dollar note comes out shredded.
  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    US politics & policy
    ‘Freedom conservatism’ is much ado about nothing

    Reheating stale free-market dogma does nothing to address the challenges facing today’s American right

    Black and white image of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher smiling
  • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
    LexUS society
    US incomes: American way of thrive triggers sticker shock Premium content

    Economic indicators suggest the country is more prosperous than 50 years ago but more Americans feel pessimistic

    A shopper carries an Insignia Roku TV television
  • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
    US politics & policy
    On America’s ramshackle railroads, Republicans concede the limits of the market

    A new bill has made concrete the debate over the role of government regulation

    A derailed Norfolk Southern train burns in East Palestine, Ohio. The risks of trains carrying hazardous materials are not something the free market will provide incentives to address
  • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
    US politics & policy
    Joe Biden’s chips choices undermine bipartisan industrial initiatives

    The White House is discrediting its promotion of domestic semiconductor production by linking it to childcare

  • Monday, 13 February, 2023
    US economy
    Ordinary Americans are counting the cost of thriving

    Economic data disguises just how hard it has become to sustain a middle-class lifestyle

    Homes in California, where an American man working the typical full-time job would need 73 weeks’ wages per year to support a middle-class lifestyle
  • Friday, 6 January, 2023
    Republican Party US
    Ferment of change lurks in Republican chaos

    Disarray over electing US House Speaker disguises emergence of fresh thinking to replace outdated paradigms

    US House leader Kevin McCarthy with a GOP logo and the Capitol Hill building in the background
  • Monday, 17 October, 2022
    Employment
    Skills gaps will force companies to do right by their compatriots

    Employers who profited from cheap foreign labour cannot now gripe at having to train local workers

    Two factory workers
  • Sunday, 14 August, 2022
    US politics & policy
    The Chips Act debate shows how far the Republicans have moved

    Rebuilding America’s industrial base is superseding traditional economic doctrine

    Joe Biden sits at a desk on the South Lawn of the White House surrounded by people as signs the Chips and Science Act of 2022
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