The GOP is too wedded to free markets and scornful of the welfare state to ever make anything in health care work.
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Other Victories for Working Families
Mamdani got the headlines, but New York was not a one-off. Candidates endorsed by the Working Families Party had amazing election successes elsewhere in America.
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Affordable Trump
His belated effort to address the cost-of-living crisis is a repudiation of his own core policies and a gift to progressives.
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Trump Seeks Monument to Self, Gold Preferred. Here’s My Idea.
Nothing would better become him, and our times, than a Golden Calf, crowned with his own head.
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The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Shutdown Cave and the Next Health Care Fight
David Dayen and Prospect co-founder Bob Kuttner look at the politics and policy of the end of the government shutdown.
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Collateral Damage From the Epstein Files: Larry Summers
It’s long past time to jettison Summers as hopelessly contaminated. But there are far more serious reasons to dump Summers than his gross connections with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding CAP’s ‘Project 2029’
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
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The Shutdown’s End as a Republican Victory? No Way.
The shutdown enabled the Democrats to highlight the Republicans’ withdrawal of health coverage from millions of Americans, and Trump’s withholding food stamps—while he was praising himself for building a ballroom and rebuilding the Lincoln bathroom—only accelerated his descent in the polls.
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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?
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Key Nebraska House Primary Features an Establishment Progressive and an Outsider Moderate
State lawmaker John Cavanaugh, despite his record and the backing of the Progressive Caucus, represents the local party establishment. Meanwhile, Democratic activist Denise Powell, the self-styled outsider, is rapidly becoming the favored candidate of many in the national party’s donor and operative class.
