Trump’s Trojan horse tax cut
Using the promise of middle-class tax cuts as a Trojan horse for a tax windfall for the rich and deep spending cuts is a tactic dating back to the Reagan administration.
Osama Bin Laden’s America
Niger, 9/11, and apocalyptic humiliation
GOP tax cuts won’t pass this year – or maybe even next
In Part 1 of a two-part interview, former Reagan economic adviser Bruce Bartlett says Trump is lying about tax reform: it will benefit the super rich and hurt everyone else.
The huge tax heist
The moneyed interests who run the GOP depend on the Trump bomb to divert attention from their huge heist.
For Trump, words are stupid things
As language takes a beating from the president, a book about Churchill and Orwell reminds us how potent skilled rhetoric can be.
Leading Democrats are way behind the public on health care
60 percent of Americans support single payer health care. So why is the party leadership dragging its feet?
Khizr Khan and the wisdom of Gold Star families
"If it was up to Donald Trump, [my son] never would have been in America."
America now has 6 political parties
Whoever can put together elements of a governing coalition among these six parties will win future elections.
Why ‘centrists’ will sink the Democrats, if they haven’t already
The bipartisan, centrist political consensus is breaking down.
America’s heroes also work in fire departments, hospitals and public schools
Gen. Kelly needs to zip it.