Donald Trump’s Most Racist Speech Ever
Of all of the insults Trump has hurled at African Americans over the years, this speech was the worst.
China will decide the outcome of Russia v. the West
Is Putin the face of the future or the final gasp of the past?
Despite the GOP’s attempts to repeal Obamacare, health care doesn’t have to pit young...
One of the Affordable Care Act’s fatal flaws enables Republican sabotage. But to lay the groundwork for change, progressives will have to resist powerful senior lobbies.
A year without a president
What have we learned about the presidency and who is running the country?
What Trump has already wrecked—and still at it, still escaping deterrence, still capable of...
Who has more greatly battered the entire system of justice from prosecution investigations, to arraignments and indictments—in short law and order?
Democrats push to ban congressional stock trading amid tariff-triggered market scandal
Lawmakers intensify calls to outlaw stock trades by members of Congress following Trump’s tariff reversal and suspicious GOP investments.
The GOP’s Pro-Corporate Prescription
Tax credits for working families are a better deal than corporate tax breaks.
Democrats have a huge opportunity to expand their base and they’re ignoring it
It’s past time for progressive Democrats to stop focusing on the places they win votes easily, in the cities and the suburbs and to go where the Republicans win by default: rural America.
By the best definition, the poverty rate should be tripled
But poverty deniers won't look deeper, because they don't want to admit that anyone willing to work could be suffering in the richest country in the world.
The Political Roots of Widening Inequality
The trend toward widening inequality in America can only be reversed if we all join together to demand fundamental change. While the political competition isn't between the right and the left, it's between the majority of Americans and an economic elite.