As a result of Trump’s ongoing trade war, China stopped buying soybeans from the US in May, leaving the agricultural industry with a gaping void that has exposed the true instability of the farm economy: an attachment to large-scale monocrop farming and a corresponding habit of passing farm bailouts when this leads to disaster—as it often does.
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The Damaged Democratic Brand
More successful economic populists within the Democratic Party can help other Democrats revive their brand with an appeal that rouses voters.
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Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump on Saturday
Millions of people will take to the streets again this Saturday to protest the autocratic regime of President Donald Trump, his government shutdown, and his demolition of Medicare, Medicaid, and other public programs in service of tax cuts for billionaires.
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Chicago Strikes Back, With an Assist From Republican Governors
In the White House view of the world, Chicago is a putrid hellhole, so dangerous and crime-choked that local law enforcement needs federal backup. Gov. Pritzker is fighting back.
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As Shutdown Wears On, Trump’s Getting Blamed
There haven’t been any shutdown talks for a week, just public posturing. Both sides think they are winning the shutdown, giving them no reason to initiate talks rather than just wait for the other side to buckle.
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Donald Trump to Trump Country: Drop Dead
One of the most baffling themes of Donald Trump’s second term is how he is specifically ruining the cities and lives of his most loyal voters—taking their factories, their jobs, their health care, their hospitals, and their future. The first knife Trump drove into the backs of red economies was to repeal almost all of […]
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Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. For decades, many Democratic pundits and strategists have had a simple answer for how the party could win: move to “the center.” Just look at Bill Clinton: After three consecutive routs in presidential elections from 1980 to 1988, Clinton ended […]
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Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis
Immigration enforcement is working hand in hand with the H-2A program.
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Governors Plunged Into Constitutional Crisis
As members of Congress scanned the skies for signs of bipartisan intervention amid an imminent government shutdown, the governor of Illinois called for President Trump to be removed from office. Though invoking the 25th Amendment was a rhetorical flourish—no executive-branch Republican would ever entertain the idea—JB Pritzker wasn’t finished. Last Friday, at a fundraiser for […]
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To Win the Shutdown, Democrats Need a Big Switch
Democrats have positioned the shutdown as about health care, which is very easy for Republicans to dismiss.
