The Republican Senate Chickens Out
In the end, the Republican caucus went meekly along and approved the ICE funding, with no limits on the slush…
Indiana’s Private Equity Power Play
Indiana remains one of the only states that cannot approve or reject utility takeover deals.
Can Democrats Learn From the 2024 Loss?
The autopsy debacle is an excellent window into the rotting core of Democratic politics.
Debbie Downer
When every seat is critical to stitching together a congressional majority, how could Wasserman Schulz take the path of least…
The Internet and Its Discontents
The book is marketed as a treatise against Big Tech. But the author's diagnoses of both the problem and the…
How a Pro-Worker Bill May Advance in the House
As my colleague Bob Kuttner has been documenting of late, the congressional Republicans’ lockstep support for every Trumpian outrage and…
Senate Democrats Threaten to Punt FISA Over Pulte Appointment
It’s more than a bit ironic that Pulte is the trigger for blowing up a bipartisan compromise deeply sought by…
Trump Kicks His Dismantling of Veterans’ Health Care Into High Gear
Midway through the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee’s May 20 hearing on the VA’s advance budget request, Sen. Angus King (I-ME)…
Affordable to Buy, Costly to Use
Fixing the affordability of insurance premiums does less to address the underlying prices and care needs that make health coverage…
We Are Shocked—Shocked—to Find War Criminals at the Israel Day Parade
Two weeks ago, Bezalel Smotrich, the avowedly ethno-supremacist Israeli finance minister who has spent most of his life trying to…