The Debate Democrats Can’t Duck The Debate Democrats Can’t Duck
The populist temper of the time is rousing citizens across the country. Politics as usual won’t suffice anymore.
Jul 11, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Billionaires’ Republic A Billionaires’ Republic
American democracy has always been threatened by concentrations of wealth as much as those of power.
Jul 11, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Jedediah Britton-Purdy
Patriotism in the Trump Era Patriotism in the Trump Era
For many Americans, the pursuit of happiness is getting harder every day. But in the growing movements demanding justice and equality for all, we see the hard work of patriotism fl...
Jul 5, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Claims to Relieve Taxpayers—but It’s a Sleight of Hand Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Claims to Relieve Taxpayers—but It’s a Sleight of Hand
Privatization will cost all of us.
Jun 30, 2017 / Bryce Covert
California Is Massively Expanding One of the Most Effective Tools to Make Work Pay Better California Is Massively Expanding One of the Most Effective Tools to Make Work Pay Better
The number of families helped by the Golden State’s Earned Income Tax Credit is about to triple.
Jun 21, 2017 / Joe Sanberg
Agents of Inequality: How Wealth Managers to the Super-Rich Undermine Society and What We Can Do About It Agents of Inequality: How Wealth Managers to the Super-Rich Undermine Society and What We Can Do About It
An expert on their secretive world explains how these shadowy practitioners of financial trickery help facilitate widespread tax evasion—and undermine democratic government.
Jun 21, 2017 / Chuck Collins
Betsy DeVos Moves to Help For-Profit Schools Defraud Students Betsy DeVos Moves to Help For-Profit Schools Defraud Students
The Education Department just froze two key protections for students.
Jun 15, 2017 / StudentNation / David Dayen
The GOP Is Working Stealthily to Shred Health and Financial Protections for Ordinary Americans The GOP Is Working Stealthily to Shred Health and Financial Protections for Ordinary Americans
It will take massive citizen mobilization to stop big parts of this abomination from coming into law.
Jun 13, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
NAFTA Is Broken. Trump Has All the Wrong Fixes. NAFTA Is Broken. Trump Has All the Wrong Fixes.
What a progressive trade agreement would actually look like.
Jun 12, 2017 / Michelle Chen
The Bankers Behind Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis The Bankers Behind Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis
The commonwealth’s financial woes didn’t happen by accident—they were the result of decades of public immiseration and private gain.
Jun 8, 2017 / Michelle Chen