The Trump administration’s plans to lower prices are just Biden-era retreads. Unfortunately, they’re just plans, with no expected follow-through.
Joe Biden
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Republicans Scramble for Health Care Ideas as Obamacare Deadline Looms
Next week, massive premium increases get locked in. The GOP has shown no interest in stopping it, or preventing any other increases in health care costs.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Your Money Means Market Power for Banks
Deposits are the raw materials with which bankers play, the key to unlocking market power, as giants like Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase demonstrate.
Posted inLaw and Justice
How on Earth Are We Just Now Hearing About Trump’s ‘Hours’ With an Epstein Victim?
The recent release of more emails is only the latest in about 10,000 stories implicating Donald Trump in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuses. What were the Justice Department and congressional Democrats doing with the information all this time?
Posted inAmerica and the World
Joe Biden’s Ignominious Gaza Failure
Trump’s hamfisted diplomacy underscores that Biden could have ended the conflict more than a year ago, but now he’ll be remembered for being beaten at humanitarian diplomacy by Donald Trump.
Posted inPolitics
Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. For decades, many Democratic pundits and strategists have had a simple answer for how the party could win: move to “the center.” Just look at Bill Clinton: After three consecutive routs in presidential elections from 1980 to 1988, Clinton ended […]
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Trump Is Blinding the Government to Methane Pollution. But Others Are Still Watching.
‘If people could see this with their bare eyes, none of this would be happening.’
Posted inEconomic Policy
MAGA’s Gift to China
Trump’s tariffs aren’t helping America. But they are helping someone else.
Posted inWorking in America
Requiem for the Wagner Act
Signed into law 90 years ago, labor’s onetime ‘magna carta’ is now a very dead letter.
