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The Credit Card Industry’s False Lifeline
The credit card industry is gouging small business with swipe fees, claiming it’s doing so to help working-class Americans.
The Rise of American “Neopopulism” with David Leonhardt
David Leonhardt joins Oren Cass for a discussion of “neopopulism,” the realignment of American politics, and a bit of the history that got us here.
Why Is Mitch McConnell Still In Charge?
On policy, he is badly misaligned with the GOP and its standard bearer. He is weak on immigration, allied with big business, and expansive in his vision for the nation’s foreign policy commitments.
Oren Cass on CNBC’s Squawk Box
Oren Cass joins CNBC’s Squawk Box for a discussion of conservative economics, politics, and the future of GOP policymaking.
Trump-allied Republicans are changing the GOP’s approach to labor, free markets and regulation
CNBC’s Eamon Javers features American Compass in a discussion of the new conservative economic populism taking hold among Republicans.
A New Centrism Is Rising in Washington
Call it neopopulism: a bipartisan attitude that mistrusts the free-market ethos instead of embracing it.
The Wolves of K Street with Brody Mullins
WSJ’s Brody Mullins joins Oren to discuss his new book, The Wolves of K Street, about corporate power and the rise of the lobbying industry.
Survey Reveals Broad Support for Government Across Party Lines
Even among Republicans, few can identify major areas where they’d like government to do less
Constructing Conservatism in the Secular Age
What should conservative politics look like at a time when many Americans are no longer religious?
Realignment Politics with Jerry Seib, Michael Brendan Dougherty, and Tim Chapman
What does the right-of-center’s economic debate mean for political leaders and how is it being translated into electoral politics in 2024 and beyond?
John A. Burtka IV on Building a Better Elite
On this episode, Oren Cass is joined by John A. Burtka IV to discuss how to cultivate and educate a better elite, what the “mirrors for princes” tradition has to teach today’s leaders, and aristo-populism.
Oren Cass: “Trump is an inherently time-limited phenomenon”
The pro-worker policy wonk who wants to save the Republican Party from itself.
Biden’s Gamble
Politico’s Morning Money features American Compass’s survey on the Biden administration’s economic policies
New Survey Shows Biden Economic Policies Polarize Voters
The president’s policies divide Democrats and the upper class from everyone else
How the Biden White House Cornered Itself
The president’s polarizing policies are ones that divide Democrats and the upper class from everyone else
Is Romney’s former adviser building the post-Trump GOP?
Oren Cass has made a name for himself rejecting the old conservative economic consensus.
The Receding Democratic Majority
Demography may be destiny, but its party affiliation is not
The New Conservative Voter
A realignment that focuses the Republican Party on pro-worker economic policy is well underway
US Republicans Could Finally Win the Argument on Immigration
Political conditions in the US are ripe for rare progress on immigration, writes Oren Cass in the Financial Times.
