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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]
27 Oct 2021, 9:01 pm
It sometimes seems that every policy disagreement is immediately turned into a constitutional question. [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]
9 Jul 2017, 9:01 pm
No matter whether the Republicans succeed in their current efforts to take health care away from non-rich people—partly to pay for tax cuts for rich people, and partly simply to allow everyone else to make “voluntary choices” to get sick and die—they will soon turn their attention squarely back to the tax system. [read post]
29 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm
I have been predicting for the last several years that the United States is on the precipice of ending its experiment in representative democracy, through which we have enjoyed the benefits of living under the rule of law. [read post]
6 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm
In short order over the last two weeks, the latest debt ceiling crisis was defused, the date of the next crisis was all but set in stone, and the political class quickly moved on to “previously scheduled programming”—that is, to the many ongoing crises that the debt ceiling standoff had pushed off the front pages for more than a month.Hindsight bias may leave the impression that this result was foreordained, but it was not. [read post]
7 Oct 2015, 9:01 pm
In the lead-up to the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, the surprise story has of course been the emergence and staying power (thus far) of Donald Trump. [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm
When they are not lying about climate change or health care or voter fraud or terrorism or guns or immigrants or reproductive rights, Donald Trump and the Republican Party love to lie about economic policy, especially taxes.Are tax cuts—especially tax cuts for corporations and the extremely rich—the answer to all of our economic ills? [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]
26 Jul 2021, 9:01 pm
Last week, Senate Republicans announced that they have decided not to participate in the necessary adjustment of the federal debt ceiling at the end of this month, playing politics once again with the full faith and credit of the United States of America. [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]
4 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm
In these final weeks and days before the midterm elections, a sub-genre of interesting commentary has arisen that focuses on how many young people will vote in 2018. [read post]
7 Sep 2016, 9:01 pm
With so many unusual things happening in the 2016 presidential election campaign, it is easy to forget about the issues that might have been part of the debate but instead have been left at the side of the road.Social Security is one obvious example. [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 Aug 2019, 9:01 pm
Much of the commentary about the nascent 2020 presidential race is truly puzzling. [read post]
16 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm
The escalating series of outrageous comments by Donald Trump on the presidential campaign trail has reportedly created enormous headaches for the party’s leaders and backers. [read post]
25 Jan 2016, 9:01 pm
It is now widely known that the Republican-dominated government of Michigan created, through deliberate decisions as well as malign neglect, a public health emergency in the City of Flint. [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]
1 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm
During the Great Recession and its immediate aftermath, there was serious concern about whether the world would see a turn away from the rule of law, with totalitarian movements rising in response to economic catastrophe.That concern was well founded, based on historical experience. [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 9:01 pm
In the chaos of our current political era, it can be difficult to stay on top of—or even to remember—all of the dangerous statements and policies that Donald Trump issues daily from his perch in the Oval Office. [read post]
