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.
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The White House pushed for the sale of nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia — without seeking congressional approval, according to House Democrats.
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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.
Trump’s Emergency Declaration Proves He Isn’t a Political Savant — He’s Just Addicted to Fox News
With his emergency declaration, Trump prioritized pleasing Sean Hannity over appealing to swing voters. That is an idiotic 2020 strategy.
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The FBI’s Aborted Plan to Remove Trump From Office Was Delusional
Andrew McCabe says the DOJ considered lobbying Trump’s Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment. That sounds undemocratic — but it’s really just dumb.
Mike Pence Makes Strong Case for Donald Trump’s Resignation
The vice-president argued Tuesday night that “those who engage in anti-Semitic tropes” have no place in our politics.
Howard Schultz 2020: What If a Moderate Democrat But Vaguer?
At a CNN town hall, Schultz revealed that his issue positions are all either restatements of Democratic orthodoxy, or bursts of Trumpian hot air.
Trump Tax Cuts Are (Probably) About to Become a Political Disaster
The GOP pressured the IRS to underestimate withholding. Now, tax refunds are falling — and some Republican voters are livid.
GOP Warns That Releasing Trump’s Taxes Could Lead to More Transparency
Republicans say exposing Trump’s conflicts of interest is a slippery slope that would lead to exposing all politicians’ conflicts of interest.
AOC’s Green New Deal Resolution Is Utopian — and Pragmatic
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Trump Administration Brings Relief to Long-suffering Predatory Lenders
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau just gutted another consumer financial protection.
Trump’s State of the Union Was a Preview of His 2020 Strategy
The president promised liberal economic policies — without all those taxes or subversive social values.
The State of the Union Is Delusion
A con man just stiltedly recited a litany of his own willful fantasies, and America’s — while a basket of respectables hooted and hollered.
Voters Aren’t Moving Left on Taxes. Democrats Are Moving Toward Voters.
Americans have always been eager to soak the rich. But public opinion doesn’t drive policy change in the U.S. — parties do.
The Democratic Party’s Most ‘Electable’ 2020 Candidate Isn’t Running
Tammy Baldwin has proven that she can win Wisconsin by double digits — while championing single payer, gay rights, and labor.
Trump: Football Too Unsafe for My Son, Not Unsafe Enough for Others
The president says football is too “dangerous” for Barron — and that the NFL isn’t as “vicious” and “violent” as it should be.
Warren Unveils Bill Barring U.S. From Initiating a Nuclear Holocaust
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 Democrats’ Irrational Love of the Filibuster Could Doom Their Agenda
The Senate’s supermajority requirement for all legislation is a gift to conservatism. And progressives are promising to maintain it forever.
Dems Make Border Security Offer — With Zero Funding for ‘the Wall’
Meanwhile, Trump says the border wall is already being built — and that his voters care less about it than people think.
Trump Is Eyeing Herman Cain for the Federal Reserve Board
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.