President Biden bent over backwards to help left-behind communities get factories and jobs. Their congressional representatives don’t appreciate it.
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.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Trumpflation Is Here
The president’s lunatic tariffs are jacking up prices all over the place.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
DOGE Is Obliterating American Industry
The Loan Programs Office is one of the most successful government agencies in history—or it was until Elon Musk arrived.
Posted inPolitics
Republicans Declare War on Asylum Seekers and the FTC
The House Judiciary Committee section of the GOP mega-bill is appalling.
Posted inTAP
Trump’s War on the Judiciary Escalates
Today on TAP: The FBI has arrested a sitting judge in Wisconsin.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Trump Administration Is Objectively Pro-Cancer
America used to have the best medical research system in the world. Elon Musk and RFK Jr. are ripping it to shreds.
Posted inUncategorized
Pete Hegseth May Be Too Incompetent Even for Trump
Turns out Fox News loudmouths are bad at running the military.
Posted inPolitics
The Anti-Immigration Majority Is a Mirage
Americans gradually bought the Republican sales pitch on immigration. Then they saw what it looks like in practice.
Posted inVideos
The Best Tax System on Earth
Tax day could be so much easier, if we simply cared to invest properly in the IRS.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How the Euro Can Replace the Dollar
Europe has a potential golden opportunity to claim the global reserve currency and get a free military rearmament to boot.
