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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...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Oct 16, 20246 min read
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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...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Sep 23, 20246 min read
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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...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jun 9, 20249 min read
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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...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
May 9, 202412 min read
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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...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Dec 20, 20237 min read
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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:...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Dec 6, 20239 min read
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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...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Nov 17, 20235 min read
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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...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Nov 7, 20233 min read
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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...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Oct 2, 20234 min read
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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...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Sep 25, 20236 min read
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“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...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jul 20, 20236 min read
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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...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Jun 7, 20236 min read
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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,...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
May 23, 20237 min read
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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...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Apr 19, 20235 min read
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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,...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Mar 19, 20234 min read
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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...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Mar 14, 20234 min read
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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...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Mar 7, 20233 min read
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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...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Mar 1, 20237 min read
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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...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Feb 19, 20231 min read
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The Wall Street Journal hates our book
Making the case that you should read it. By Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin We are choosing to see Wall Street Journal Opinion Page writer...
Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin
Feb 19, 20232 min read
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