Does Tom Friedman’s Latest Column Prove That Capitalism Was a Mistake?
In “Is America Becoming a Four-Party State?” Friedman shows that the free market in hot takes selects for specious arguments and overheated headlines.
In “Is America Becoming a Four-Party State?” Friedman shows that the free market in hot takes selects for specious arguments and overheated headlines.
The White House pushed for the sale of nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia — without seeking congressional approval, according to House Democrats.
Sanders’s message hasn’t changed much over the past four years (or decades). His team hopes that this consistency will make a difference in 2020.
With his emergency declaration, Trump prioritized pleasing Sean Hannity over appealing to swing voters. That is an idiotic 2020 strategy.
Andrew McCabe says the DOJ considered lobbying Trump’s Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment. That sounds undemocratic — but it’s really just dumb.
The vice-president argued Tuesday night that “those who engage in anti-Semitic tropes” have no place in our politics.
At a CNN town hall, Schultz revealed that his issue positions are all either restatements of Democratic orthodoxy, or bursts of Trumpian hot air.
The GOP pressured the IRS to underestimate withholding. Now, tax refunds are falling — and some Republican voters are livid.
Republicans say exposing Trump’s conflicts of interest is a slippery slope that would lead to exposing all politicians’ conflicts of interest.
The proposal is a left-wing wish list that includes policies unrelated to climate. That makes it legislatively nonviable — but politically sound.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau just gutted another consumer financial protection.
The president promised liberal economic policies — without all those taxes or subversive social values.
A con man just stiltedly recited a litany of his own willful fantasies, and America’s — while a basket of respectables hooted and hollered.
Americans have always been eager to soak the rich. But public opinion doesn’t drive policy change in the U.S. — parties do.
Tammy Baldwin has proven that she can win Wisconsin by double digits — while championing single payer, gay rights, and labor.
The president says football is too “dangerous” for Barron — and that the NFL isn’t as “vicious” and “violent” as it should be.
Her new bill would make it official U.S. policy not to use nukes first in an armed conflict. Republicans call this dangerous and irresponsible.
The Senate’s supermajority requirement for all legislation is a gift to conservatism. And progressives are promising to maintain it forever.
Meanwhile, Trump says the border wall is already being built — and that his voters care less about it than people think.
Appointing a pizza magnate with a history of sexual harassment to the central bank might sound crazy at first. But upon reflection, it’s totally nuts.