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19 Jan 2022, 9:01 pm
As the political situation in the United States becomes uglier and more threatening, many people are wondering what to do if (or, I have argued, when) things here go from very bad to horrible. [read post]
4 May 2022, 9:01 pm
What will America become if, as reported, the five most conservative members of the US Supreme Court angrily and emphatically overrule Roe v. [read post]
2 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm
“The rise of economics is a primary reason for the rise of inequality. [read post]
14 Apr 2021, 9:01 pm
When President Biden announced that he planned to propose a large infrastructure spending bill, it was all too predictable what would come next. [read post]
16 Feb 2022, 9:01 pm
The world is in turmoil, and even our calm and friendly neighbors to the north might no longer be immune to the strains of totalitarian right-wing lawlessness that have infected other countries, most prominently the United States. [read post]
12 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm
Fearmongering about the national debt is so common in the US that we often barely even notice when it is happening. [read post]
7 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
One of the magazines to which I subscribe sends out weekly emails summarizing the blur of recent events. [read post]
4 Oct 2021, 9:01 pm
Senate Republicans’ cynical decision to provide zero votes to increase the debt ceiling is an affront to common sense, decency, and the rule of law. [read post]
28 Aug 2019, 9:01 pm
Is the economy Donald Trump’s best argument for his 2020 campaign (a campaign that has, incidentally, been running nonstop since his shocking non-majority upset in 2016)? [read post]
6 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm
It turns out that the attacks on Senator Elizabeth Warren for not yet having explained in detail the financial underpinnings of Medicare-for-All were pretextual and dishonest. [read post]
18 Jan 2021, 9:00 pm
“Trump Prepares to Offer Clemency to More Than 100 People in His Final Hours in Office,” reported yesterday’s Washington Post. [read post]
7 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm
What now? [read post]
27 Oct 2021, 9:01 pm
It sometimes seems that every policy disagreement is immediately turned into a constitutional question. [read post]
13 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm
Remember the debt ceiling? [read post]
8 Feb 2021, 9:00 pm
Faced with a blizzard of illogical, strange, bad-faith arguments coming from Senate Republicans in advance of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, one might think that there has to be at least something to their arguments. [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey last year (preceded by his summary firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who refused to enact his cruel Muslim ban) evoked memories of Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre, one of many low points on the road to Nixon’s resignation.Nixon similarly went much further than all other presidents before or since (until Trump) in politically manipulating the Fed. [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 9:01 pm
The U.S. economy has lost at least 22 million jobs over the past month, with the unemployment rate headed to Great Depression-level heights. [read post]
5 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
With Senate Republicans having now acquitted Donald Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, we can expect Trump to increase his abuse of power and even more brazenly obstruct Congress. [read post]
2 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm
With everything else that is going wrong in the country and the world in 2020, the one policy issue that I imagined was simply not going to pop back up on the radar screen was Social Security. [read post]
17 May 2020, 9:01 pm
Will Republicans continue to block federal disaster relief to America’s states and cities? [read post]
