It’s becoming increasingly clear that conservative governors trying to push trickle-down tax cuts for the rich and austerity for everyone else will, eventually, face a political backlash. Once again, a bipartisan coalition of fed-up legislators has overridden their intransigent governor’s veto to keep their state from driving off the cliff. On Thursday, Illinois Republicans joined […]
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It Was Prejudice. It Was Economics. It Was Both.
New surveys show not all Trump voters had the same motivations.
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Dispatches From the Conservative Bubble: GOP Health-Care Edition
How come some Republicans don’t believe that the Ryan and McConnell bills would lead to more deaths? An epistemic blockade, that’s how come.
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The Virginia Shooting Isn’t About Bernie. It’s About the Right’s Embrace of Guns.
Concentrating on James Hodgkinson’s political leanings obscures the real problem of gun violence in America—and why it’s happening.
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An Open Letter to the Republican Leadership
Why you are better off ousting Trump sooner rather than later
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Democrats Need to Be the Party of and for Working People—of All Races
And they can’t retake Congress unless they win over more white workers.
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The GOP’s Overtime Reform Plan: Fraud Masquerading as Flexibility
With Obama’s landmark overtime expansion blocked in the courts, conservatives roll out a plan that would undo overtime pay as we know it.Â
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Will the Far Right Keep Saving Democratic Progressives?
The House Freedom Caucus may be poised to jettison much of the Trump-Ryan agenda.
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Mark Meadows Wants the AHCA to Take Even More from the Poor
The House Freedom Caucus leader—our Trickle Downer of the Week—wants to allow states to undo preexisting condition protections and thin out health-care coverage, exacerbating the deep policy inequities of the AHCA.Â
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Trump & Friends’ War on African American Women
A pattern is emerging in the administration’s scandal-defense playbook: Go after black women.
