Trump has been trying to kill bipartisanship, but this is one bipartisan bill that Trump desperately needs.
Robert Kuttner
Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, and professor at Brandeis University’s Heller School. His latest book is Notes for Next Time: Surviving Tyranny, Redeeming America.
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Memo to Ezra Klein: Check Out Wichita and Boise
You don’t need to scrap planning and zoning to get abundant and affordable housing. In fact, planning and zoning can help get housing built.
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Trump Trips Up Trump
The continuing negative fallout from Trump’s crusades against his own party’s incumbents
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Bending the Knee to Trump
If Colorado’s Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of election thief Tina Peters in hope of appeasing Trump and getting funding restored, he may wait a long time.
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A Turn to the Left in Britain?
Even if progressive Andy Burnham becomes the next British prime minister, will global hyper-capitalism allow him to succeed?
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Trump’s Nothingburger Banquet in Beijing
The president comes home empty-handed from his summit with Xi Jinping.
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Rolling Back Medicare Advantage
How a group of rank-and-file retirees in Connecticut successfully organized to restore their right to traditional public Medicare
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Trump’s Weird New Global Order
One positive effect is that midsized powers are less under the sway of Washington. But they could come under the sway of China.
Posted inTAP
Wall Street’s Favorite Democrat
Rahm Emanuel is back, running for president as a corporate Democrat. His timing is terrible.
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An Epic Collapse for Britain’s Labour Party
Britain’s centrist Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer crashes while Spain’s Socialist Pedro Sánchez shows how to lead from the left. Could there be a lesson here?