The Manchin empire extends to a nondescript nursing home in deep coal country. It’s a relic of a social welfare system that has collapsed.
Joe Manchin
Posted inPolitics
Making China’s Case: Manchin, Sinema, and the Six Supremes
By demonstrating America can’t ensure the right to vote or to survive a pandemic, they’re bolstering the argument that authoritarian regimes work better than ours.
Posted inPolitics
Democratic Inaction Will Lead Us Back to Austerity
Fiscal policy has reverted negative right when omicron is surging, and the Democrats are uncertain about where to turn for political success.
Posted inPolitics
Spinning Their Wheels in the U.S. Senate
A debate on voting rights seems destined to irrelevance, as the Biden agenda remains stalled out.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Care Crisis Isn’t What You Think
Our problems are deeper than a lack of care infrastructure.
Posted inDay One Agenda
Now Can We Try the Day One Agenda?
With Joe Manchin pulling the string on Biden’s signature legislation, it’s past time for him to use his own authority to make progress.
Posted inBuilding Back America
The 1937 Project
Or maybe the 1979 Project. Either way, Democrats are blundering into premature austerity.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Why Would Anyone Expect Republicans to Implement the Biden Agenda?
Yet that’s what the Build Back Better Act does with practically all of its family care programs.