Jim Sleeper is a lecturer in political science at Yale University and a former columnist at the New York Daily News. Sleeper is also the author of The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York.
New CBO analysis confirms steep losses for poorest Americans under GOP-backed plan as Medicaid, SNAP, and public programs are gutted to fund tax cuts for the top 1 percent.
A sweeping provision to strip nonprofits of tax-exempt status without due process is no longer in the latest House GOP budget bill, but civil liberties groups say the threat to free speech and advocacy is far from over.