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Democrats Must Federalize Medicaid

by Jon Walker January 14, 2021

A signature piece of Joe Biden’s campaign agenda should be part of the first major economic package.

Voters have given Joe Biden and Congress a progressive mandate to enact real change.

But those are the breaks when you’re president; people will want you to exercise your power for the general good.

Presidents have relied on outdated authorizations for two decades. The president-elect must end this practice.

Despite the appointment of a progressive, Katherine Tai, to the top slot, Big Tech hopes to insert allies as her deputies.

Joe Biden’s Cabinet pick scorns powerful rural voters.

Katherine Tai is the leading candidate to head USTR. Will she be undermined by the appointment of industry lobbyists to key jobs just below her?

Watch writing fellow Marcia Brown and contributor Rachel Cohen chat with Sam Seder about their piece ‘How to Counteract the Court.’

The Biden administration can on its own authority change the poverty calculation, and with it, challenge the narrative of who is poor and why.

Analyzing the reasons not to cancel student debt only strengthens the case to do so.