Republicans have made a key miscalculation in their decades-long strategy of attacking social programs.
Harold Meyerson
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How California Hopes to Undo Trump
America’s mega-state is now clearly its leftmost, too—and on social insurance, climate change, and immigrant rights, it has more capacity and desire to defeat Republican reaction than any other institution.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Cosmological and Temporal Implications of the GOP Tax Cut in the AHCA
How state-of-the-art physics on the possibility of time flowing backward, rather than a base desire to favor the rich, influenced the retroactive tax cut now in Speaker Ryan’s bill
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Media Bias Against a Decent Minimum Wage
The Financial Times goes to bat against fair pay.
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The Case for Keith
Why the Democrats should make Keith Ellison their DNC chair
Posted inCivil Rights in America
If You’re Going to Deport Mexicans, Why Not the Irish?
Nativist and racist groups always blame crime—falsely—on immigrants.
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On Saturday’s Marches
Some far-flung reports and a cautionary note
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Why Republicans Can’t Come Up with an Obamacare Replacement
As Orrin Hatch has admitted, what’s blocking universal coverage is conservative ideology.
Posted inWorking in America
How Not to Make America Great Again
The secret isn’t factories. It’s giving ordinary Americans some bargaining power.
Posted inWorking in America
What Economists Learned in 2016—Long After Everyone Else
The trade deals they shilled for didn’t work out all that well.