Expirations around Medicaid and food stamps reinforce how Democrats failed to live up to professed ambitions on the welfare state.
Democrats
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Difference Between Expertise and Marketing
Attacks on aggressive antitrust enforcement from ‘fellow Democrats’ who work for monopolists should be seen for what they are.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Twilight of the Deficit Hawks
Democrats have stopped being the willing partner in a great conspiracy to slash social insurance.
Posted inTAP
Biden’s Trumanesque Strategy
Today on TAP: As in 1948, so in 2024—blue-collar workers are the ball game.
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Democrats’ Debt Ceiling Debacle
For some reason the party decided to hand the Republican House majority a live economic grenade.
Posted inPolitics
Biden Forges a New Democratic Paradigm
The president repudiates the neoliberal ideologies of the past and puts the party on solid economic and political ground.
Posted inTAP
Bipartisanship in the House
Today on TAP: As the China menace keeps ballooning, the House Select Committee on China appears to be a serious undertaking.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Whatever Happened to ‘Helping the Sh*t’ out of People?
The Biden administration might not have learned enough from the bad old days of the early 2010s.
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The Myth of Jeffrey Zients
There is no reason to trust a longtime corporate stooge to serve as President Biden’s chief of staff.
