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Harris/Walz Must Finish 2024 with a Crescendo

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Oct 166 min read

Harris/Walz Must Finish 2024 with a Crescendo

Because we wrote warnings to fellow Democrats that Donald Trump was poised to win the 2016 election, and correctly called the 2020...

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Just Nine Words are Needed to Strengthen the Harris/Walz Economic Message

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Sep 236 min read

Just Nine Words are Needed to Strengthen the Harris/Walz Economic Message

With the race essentially even although clearly moving in the Democrats direction, the Harris Walz 2024 campaign is still correctly...

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How to Win the Culture War and the 2024 Election

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Jun 99 min read

How to Win the Culture War and the 2024 Election

Learn from Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and the arts how to stand in the power of our multicultural inclusive democracy and unite a coalition...

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Why Does Anyone Believe Donald Trump? The Trump/Putin Culture, Disinformation, and Propaganda Operation Explained

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

May 912 min read

Why Does Anyone Believe Donald Trump? The Trump/Putin Culture, Disinformation, and Propaganda Operation Explained

By Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin This is Part 1 of a series detailing the problem when one-third of the electorate and a majority of...

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President Biden Stands Up to Putin/Trump

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Mar 87 min read

President Biden Stands Up to Putin/Trump

[This was first published on 2/27/2024 a week before the State of the Union but it tracks closely with President Biden's opening salvos...

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Unexpected Allies and Enemies in the Global Struggle of Democracy Versus Anti-Democracy

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Dec 20, 20237 min read

Unexpected Allies and Enemies in the Global Struggle of Democracy Versus Anti-Democracy

President Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu are not on the same side. By Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin, December 20, 2023 After the October 7...

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Nobody Knows Nothing About the 2024 Election

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Dec 6, 20239 min read

Nobody Knows Nothing About the 2024 Election

By Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin, December 6, 2023 The political pundits think they know a lot about how the 2024 election will play out:...

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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Nov 17, 20235 min read

Joe Biden is Getting “Bidenomics” Wrong

By Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin, November 17, 2023 Most Americans are below average. This is not some pithy, upside-down Lake Woebegone...

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Why Isn’t Congress Doing Enough to Fight Climate Change?

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Nov 7, 20233 min read

Why Isn’t Congress Doing Enough to Fight Climate Change?

By Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin The DividedWeFall.org website (no relation to our book with the same name) just published our civil...

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The Pro-democracy Center Unites to Defeat Anti-democracy Chaos?

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Oct 2, 20234 min read

The Pro-democracy Center Unites to Defeat Anti-democracy Chaos?

Saturday’s Vote in the House of Representatives to pass a 45-day continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government open may go down in...

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Government Shutdown is Part of Broader Efforts to Destabilize President Biden and the US Economy

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Sep 25, 20236 min read

Government Shutdown is Part of Broader Efforts to Destabilize President Biden and the US Economy

Trump aligned House Republicans appear to be hell bent on breaking the US Congress, deposing Kevin McCarty (R-CA) as Speaker, and...

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“Bidenomics” Could be the Economic Message to Reconnect with Base Democrats and Swing Moderates

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Jul 20, 20236 min read

“Bidenomics” Could be the Economic Message to Reconnect with Base Democrats and Swing Moderates

The economy is very strong, but President Biden is getting little credit. Let’s start with some basic facts. Currently, the US economy is...

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Averting a “Crisis,” Joe Biden Eats Kevin McCarthy’s Lunch

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Jun 7, 20236 min read

Averting a “Crisis,” Joe Biden Eats Kevin McCarthy’s Lunch

Once again, bipartisan compromise breaks out when it was least expected. At the end of May, when we, and the bond markets and bond rating...

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Washington Dysfunction and Chaos Is a Choice Not an Inevitability

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

May 23, 20237 min read

Washington Dysfunction and Chaos Is a Choice Not an Inevitability

The question at the start of this year was whether a divided Washington would descend into congressional chaos and dysfunction,...

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Kevin McCarthy Goes to Wall Street, We Know How This Will End

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Apr 19, 20235 min read

Kevin McCarthy Goes to Wall Street, We Know How This Will End

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy traveled to the New York Stock Exchange on Monday to deliver a speech charging President Biden with being...

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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Mar 19, 20234 min read

The Daily Show is Back!

Perhaps the first quarter of 2023 has been such an easy time to be a late-night comedian with the Chinese spy balloons, George Santos,...

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The Untimely Death of “Job Killing Regulations”

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Mar 14, 20234 min read

The Untimely Death of “Job Killing Regulations”

By Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin “We must cut taxes and job killing regulations.” We could attribute this quote to scores, if not...

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Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Process Schedule

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Mar 7, 20233 min read

Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Process Schedule

When President Biden releases his budget proposal for the fiscal year 2024 on Thursday, he will already be more than a month late. The...

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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Mar 1, 20237 min read

Fiscal Policy Negotiating Principles

Recapping our recent posts about the US federal budget: It was always an empty threat for the House GOP to refuse to raise the debt...

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State of the Union Speech Analysis from Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin on Radio Free Galisteo

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Feb 19, 20231 min read

State of the Union Speech Analysis from Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin on Radio Free Galisteo

John Shannon discusses President Biden's State of the Union speech and other headlines with Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin. Here is a...

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