Nothing like a military crisis to break the fetish for balanced budgets.
Ryan Cooper
Ryan Cooper is a senior editor at The American Prospect, and author of How Are You Going to Pay for That?: Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics. He was previously a national correspondent for The Week. His work has also appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, and Current Affairs.
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Norway’s State Investment Fund Should Dump Tesla
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Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Donald Trump Is Going to Destroy American Manufacturing
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Mad King Trump’s Tariff Disaster
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Posted inAmerica and the World
Elon Musk’s Looming Disease Holocaust
The shadow president is gutting America’s vast humanitarian aid system. Millions may die.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Donald Trump and Elon Musk Own the Bird Flu Epidemic
Bird flu is rampaging among chickens and cattle, while Trump and Musk gut the agencies responsible for stopping it.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Why Are Delaware Democrats Trying to Give Elon Musk $55 Billion?
There are more important things than the state’s corporate franchise fees.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Musk and Trump Are Causing the Dumbest Imperial Collapse in History
Empires have fallen before. But it’s never been this purely idiotic.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Donald Trump’s Thursday Afternoon Massacre
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