An unsealed lawsuit that Trump’s FTC tried to bury puts the pricing schemes of business on full display.
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The Republicans’ Endangered Health
The refusal to extend ACA subsidies becomes a huge political liability and signals deepening splits.
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Will the Court Rule for Trump or for Wall Street?
As the Supreme Court now considers whether Trump can take over the Federal Reserve, we lose either way.
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Shooting the Wounded
Is the order to kill survivors the exception to U.S. conduct, or the norm?
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Trump’s Newest Policy: Is It Racist? Is It Megalomaniacal? It’s Both!!
Free admission to our national parks on MLK’s birthday has been canceled. Free admission on Trump’s birthday has replaced it.
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Democratic Wave or Republican Swamp
Can Trump revulsion and voter mobilization overcome voter suppression?
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Trump’s Self-Imposed Economic Trap
Even if he gains control of the Fed, monetary policy can only do so much—and Trump rejects other policies that could cut the high cost of living and improve growth.
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Jeff Bezos’s Very Own Editorial Page
The Washington Post’s new editorialists have turned the page over to screeds defending not just laissez-faire capitalism but Bezos himself.
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Former Economist Larry Summers
The American Economic Association banned him for life. Given how wrong Summers has been in every major area of policy advice, why did his public disgrace require the Epstein files rather than a reckoning with his serial failures as an economist?
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‘War Department’ Mission: Saving Secretary Hegseth
‘The buck stops there, not here’ tradition of exonerating higher-ups at the expense of those further down the chain of command is well established when it comes to war crimes.
