Government borrowing costs are going through the roof—and so are yours and mine.
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Democrats’ 2028 Primary Schedule: A Cold Shoulder to Their New Activist Base
For reasons both good and bad, big cities don’t figure much in the states that will kick off the presidential primaries.
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The Companies That Got $83 Billion in Tax Breaks Last Year
All of them are tied to the data center build-out. Their tax breaks represent nearly half of the total all companies received in 2025.
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Trump Makes Crime Legal
If you’re a liberal activist or union member, the Trump administration wants to know everything about you. But if you’re a foreign oligarch laundering money, you can count on it looking the other way.
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Hong Campaign Postmortem: It Wasn’t the Socialism, It Was the Woke
The right’s attacks actually don’t focus on socialism’s defining economics.
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Democratic Voters Are Fired Up
2018 was a historic blowout for the Dems. This year, primary turnout is much higher.
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The California Left and the Wealth Tax
The absence of left unity for the ballot measure short-circuits any progressive agenda.
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Barack, Your Country Needs You
It’s great to have fun creating your library and doing a skit with Larry David, but it’s time to engage with Trump.
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Dems’ Dilemma, From the Mountains to the Prairies
In at least three states, Democratic Senate candidates are standing down in favor of independents who might beat Republicans. Good idea, or party suicide?
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Weaponizing the Missile Shortage
Reporting on the depletion of munitions due to the Iran war could be a pretext to massively expand the military budget and accelerate contracting.