Budgets

Highmark Stadium

New York’s Billion-Dollar Stadium Boondoggle New York’s Billion-Dollar Stadium Boondoggle

Governor Kathy Hochul’s budget includes an enormous giveaway to the owners of the Buffalo Bills.

Apr 12, 2022 / Ross Barkan

Congress Drags Its Feet on Funding Covid Care

Congress Drags Its Feet on Funding Covid Care Congress Drags Its Feet on Funding Covid Care

Elected officials have let the government run out of billions of dollars in pandemic relief funding, and they're still holding back.

Apr 1, 2022 / Aída Chávez

Biden’s Billionaire Tax Is Smart Politics for the Midterms

Biden’s Billionaire Tax Is Smart Politics for the Midterms Biden’s Billionaire Tax Is Smart Politics for the Midterms

Taxing the rich is a winning issue, no matter what the Republicans (and Joe Manchin) say.

Mar 31, 2022 / John Nichols

Want to Fight Inflation? Take the Bus

Want to Fight Inflation? Take the Bus Want to Fight Inflation? Take the Bus

There’s more than one way to combat a price hike.

Mar 24, 2022 / Malcolm Harris

Two violinists play music in the street as young families listen

Covid and Canceled Gigs Have Left Musicians High and Dry Covid and Canceled Gigs Have Left Musicians High and Dry

Yet most working musicians have been marginalized or excluded from current Covid relief funding.

Mar 10, 2022 / Marc Ribot

The Biden Administration Turns Its Back on the Pandemic

The Biden Administration Turns Its Back on the Pandemic The Biden Administration Turns Its Back on the Pandemic

Structural violence, social murder, and our national policy of organized abandonment.

Mar 10, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves

Minnesota teachers strike

Minneapolis Educators Strike for the Common Good Minneapolis Educators Strike for the Common Good

With public schools in limbo nationwide, the stakes couldn't be higher.

Mar 8, 2022 / Eric Blanc

Doctors hold

The Plan to Save Californians $117 Billion a Year by Switching to Single-Payer The Plan to Save Californians $117 Billion a Year by Switching to Single-Payer

Why is universal health care seen as prohibitively expensive when the status quo costs far more?

Feb 25, 2022 / Michael Lighty

Ukraine soldiers near tank

Russia, Ukraine, and the New Bipartisanship in Washington Russia, Ukraine, and the New Bipartisanship in Washington

Democrats and Republicans unite in boosting Pentagon spending.

Feb 23, 2022 / Michael T. Klare

FDR with cabinet

As Child Tax Payments Expire, Struggling Families Are Desperate As Child Tax Payments Expire, Struggling Families Are Desperate

Congress could get inspiration from the tortured creation of Social Security.

Feb 7, 2022 / James Roosevelt Jr., Henry Scott Wallace, June Hopkins, Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall, and Harold M. Ickes

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