Government

Sanders Clinton CNN debate

The Circular Firing Squad Isn’t Amusing Anymore The Circular Firing Squad Isn’t Amusing Anymore

The left is tearing itself apart.

Jul 19, 2017 / Danny Goldberg

ALEC Is Talking About Changing the Way Senators Are Elected and Taking Away Your Vote

ALEC Is Talking About Changing the Way Senators Are Elected and Taking Away Your Vote ALEC Is Talking About Changing the Way Senators Are Elected and Taking Away Your Vote

A proposed resolution advocates for overturning the 17th Amendment so Republican-controlled state legislatures could pick senators.

Jul 18, 2017 / John Nichols

Trump Baseball Bat

Trump’s Renegotiation of NAFTA Is Starting to Look a Lot Like the TPP Trump’s Renegotiation of NAFTA Is Starting to Look a Lot Like the TPP

What happened to his campaign promise to write better rules for trade?

Jul 18, 2017 / David Dayen

Mitch McConnell on Capitol Hill

Mitch McConnell Is the Biggest Loser Mitch McConnell Is the Biggest Loser

He tried to sell the bill as all things to all GOP senators—and he got caught.

Jul 18, 2017 / Joan Walsh

Supporters of the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York on November 9, 2016.

Democrats Are Trying to Win the 2018 Midterms in All the Wrong Ways Democrats Are Trying to Win the 2018 Midterms in All the Wrong Ways

If there are 7 million Obama-to-Trump voters, why didn’t Trump’s vote total increase by 7 million?

Jul 18, 2017 / Steve Phillips

Veterans hospital Phoenix

America’s Biggest Publicly Funded, Fully Integrated Health-Care System Is Under Attack America’s Biggest Publicly Funded, Fully Integrated Health-Care System Is Under Attack

The Veterans Health Administration is a successful example of a single-payer system in the United States. It’s time for progressives to defend it.

Jul 17, 2017 / Suzanne Gordon

Nurses gather to protest healthcare cuts at the National Day of Action in Los Angeles on January 15, 2017.

Since When Is It Not Okay to Play Hardball With the Democrats? Since When Is It Not Okay to Play Hardball With the Democrats?

The real issue in the fight for single-payer health care in California is not cost—it is political will and political priorities.

Jul 17, 2017 / RoseAnn DeMoro

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch

Tell Senator Orrin Hatch What ‘Experts and Stakeholders’ Really Think of His Tax Plan Tell Senator Orrin Hatch What ‘Experts and Stakeholders’ Really Think of His Tax Plan

The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has asked for input on our tax system.

Jul 14, 2017 / Rosy Alvarez

Ellison in DC, June 2015

Keith Ellison Just Beat Back a Right-Wing Assault on Religious Freedom Keith Ellison Just Beat Back a Right-Wing Assault on Religious Freedom

The congressman objected to a proposal that would have unjustly targeted Muslims.

Jul 14, 2017 / John Nichols

Bannon and Kushner in Washington DC

Kushner and Bannon Team Up to Privatize the War in Afghanistan Kushner and Bannon Team Up to Privatize the War in Afghanistan

Blackwater’s Erik Prince was a shoo-in for the plan. But who is Stephen Feinberg?

Jul 14, 2017 / Tim Shorrock

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