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** Kamala Harris has united her party, now she must transcend it
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By Will Marshall
Founder and President of the Progressive Policy Institute
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This summer’s Republican and Democratic nominating conventions were anything but conventional. Absent from both were the personal rivalries and factional infighting that usually flare up when these coalition parties gather to anoint their standard bearer.
What explains these rare displays of party cohesion? That would be Donald Trump’s genius for polarizing Americans.
July’s Republican convention in Milwaukee looked like a gaudier and more raucous ([link removed]) version of a Chinese Communist Party plenum. Speaker after speaker acclaimed Trump as their party’s great helmsman as he looked on approvingly from his imperial box.
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NEW PPI REPORT
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The shift toward digital government services is reshaping how Americans interact with public institutions, but a new report from PPI's Dr. Michael Mandel warns that this transformation risks leaving behind millions of vulnerable citizens.
The report highlights the urgent need for inclusive identity verification processes to ensure access to government services, and identifies a significant “digital verification divide” that disproportionately affects low-income Americans, rural residents, and marginalized groups, all of whom often lack the documentation required to access digital government services.
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New from the Experts
Bruno Manno, PPI Senior Advisor: The Gender And Degree Occupation Divide For Young Workers
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Diana Moss, PPI's Vice President and Director of Competition Policy: Press pause on college sports’ grand redesign
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🎧 LISTEN: Claire Ainsley, PPI's Director of the Project on Center-Left Renewal: Starmer’s ‘black holes’: What will fill them?
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🎧 LISTEN: Richard Kahlenberg, PPI's Director of Housing Policy and the American Identity Project: How Do We Fix American Education?
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Trade Fact of the Week: Trump-era tariffs raised prices but did not ‘bring manufacturing back’.
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** A Ukrainian Army Chaplain “Must Keep His Spirits Up”
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By Tamar Jacoby
Director of PPI's New Ukraine Project
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The cities and villages behind the front line are like no other part of Ukraine—a vast, run-down, depopulated staging area for the trenches to the east. Ukrainians have been fighting Russians and Moscow’s proxies here since Vladimir Putin first tried to dismember Ukraine in 2014 by invading Crimea and fomenting a separatist rebellion in the country’s eastern provinces. After a decade of war, nearly two-thirds of the region’s population has fled. The coal mines and factories—mostly metallurgic and chemical—that once made this one of the most prosperous parts of Ukraine are shuttered. The remaining businesses stay open to serve soldiers—the several hundred thousand men billeted in a swath of territory, some 50 miles wide, running parallel to the line of contact.
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ICYMI: Women Leadership in Policy Webinar
Mosaic's Women in Policy Alliance hosted a webinar on how women will shape the next administration's agenda, featuring Former Secretary Janet Napolitano.
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Mosaic Moment
The TRIUMPH Framework,
ft. Talila Millman
On this episode of Radically Pragmatic's Mosaic Moment, Mosaic alumna Talila Millman joins PPI's Sarah Paden to discuss her new book, "The TRIUMPH Framework." Millman draws upon her decades of experience in high-level Fortune 500 roles to provide her seven keys to leadership for the next generation of women leaders.
Staff Spotlight: Michael Mandel
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Dr. Michael Mandel is Vice President and Chief Economist at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington DC and senior fellow at the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School (UPenn). He was chief economist at BusinessWeek prior to its purchase by Bloomberg.
With experience spanning policy, academics, and business, Dr. Mandel has helped lead the public conversation about the economic and business impact of technology for the past two decades. Mandel’s seminal analysis showing how ecommerce creates jobs and reduces inequality was featured by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Financial Times, among others.
Mandel argues that Americans suffer from too little innovation, rather than too much. More innovation, especially in “physical” industries such as manufacturing, agriculture, and healthcare, will raise wages and create more good jobs. His current work focuses on the economic benefits of digital manufacturing; job creation by ecommerce and 5G; pharmaceutical pricing and innovation; and regulation of cross-border data flows. He spearheads PPI’s “Investment Heroes” annual report, and tracks App Economy jobs around the world.
Mandel has written four books, including the optimistic Rational Exuberance. His economics textbook, Economics: The Basics, is in its fourth edition. He received a PhD in economics from Harvard University, and taught at NYU’s Stern School of Business.
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