Helen Gym is running for Philly mayor without giving in to war-on-crime temptations.
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
The Crypto-Reactionary Deficit Scolds
Today on X-Date: Squint at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and you see MAGA conservatives endorsing legislative hostage-taking.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Introducing X-Date: A Debt Ceiling Newsletter
Democrats could have tried to abolish this pointless and dangerous economic time bomb, but failed to do it.
Posted inLaw and Justice
What Democrats Can Learn From Reporting on Supreme Court Corruption
The justices are sensitive to political pressure. Senate Democrats can impose that pressure through investigation.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Republicans’ War on Their Own Public Health
Tens of thousands of conservatives died because they believed anti-vaccine lies. Now the GOP is bringing back measles and polio.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Democrats Struggle to Face the Illegitimate Court System
A few Democratic members of Congress understand what needs to be done. More should join them.
Posted inPolitics
Republicans’ Self-Inflicted Budget Impasse
The GOP discovers that shouting lies on television is not a good way to figure out how to tax and spend.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
India Decides Fighting Tuberculosis Is More Important Than Johnson & Johnson’s Profits
The country shot down a patent extension on a critical TB drug.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The Occupation Is Eating Israeli Democracy
Benjamin Netanyahu is the kind of figure produced by an apartheid system.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Donald Trump Deserves to Be Indicted
But not just for the Stormy Daniels affair; the most corrupt president in American history has gotten away with far too much.
