Our Public Servants Maintain Normalcy by Being Regular Incompetent Our Public Servants Maintain Normalcy by Being Regular Incompetent
Coronavirus’s impact on American lives deepens.
Mar 31, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow
This Is What an Opposition Party Is Supposed to Sound Like This Is What an Opposition Party Is Supposed to Sound Like
Bernie Sanders’s moral outrage and devastating sarcasm struck back against a GOP assault on poor and low-income workers.
Mar 27, 2020 / John Nichols
‘Just Keep Up the Faith’: Workers Are Stepping Up to Beat the Coronavirus ‘Just Keep Up the Faith’: Workers Are Stepping Up to Beat the Coronavirus
From hospital wards to bus routes to a ventilator plant in Wisconsin, working-class Americans are giving their all.
Mar 26, 2020 / John Nichols
Sanders Must Now Choose His Battlefield Sanders Must Now Choose His Battlefield
The insurgent has to decide whether to keep fighting in the primaries—or push for a radical economic program in Congress.
Mar 18, 2020 / Jeet Heer
Trump Is Banking on Work Requirements to Cut Spending on Medicaid and Food Stamps Trump Is Banking on Work Requirements to Cut Spending on Medicaid and Food Stamps
He’s admitting that work requirements will cut recipients off from their benefits—and reduce the deficit he himself created.
Feb 28, 2020 / Bryce Covert
Trump Doesn’t Hate Welfare When It Goes to Wealthy White Farmers Trump Doesn’t Hate Welfare When It Goes to Wealthy White Farmers
The president’s farm aid lays bare the racial and class implications of his disdain of government assistance.
Feb 14, 2020 / Bryce Covert
Trump’s Budget: Making America God-Awful Again Trump’s Budget: Making America God-Awful Again
It would destroy what’s left of the social safety net and finish the hollowing out of America’s working and middle classes.
Feb 11, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky
Trump Has Been Out-Conned by the Pentagon Trump Has Been Out-Conned by the Pentagon
Despite a woeful 75-year military record, the Pentagon’s coffers are overflowing with taxpayer dollars.
Feb 5, 2020 / William Astore
The Pentagon’s New Budget Is a Recipe For Disaster The Pentagon’s New Budget Is a Recipe For Disaster
Taxpayer dollars will continue to pour into a revolving-door industry with little oversight and outrageous spending.
Jan 23, 2020 / Mandy Smithberger
Americans Want Jobs, Not War Americans Want Jobs, Not War
Polls indicate voters would like to see a reduced Pentagon budget and more spending on health care and education at home.
Jan 6, 2020 / Guy T. Saperstein and Joe Cirincione