Economist Dean Baker says Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner is a “four alarm fire.”
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Trump Doesn’t Like Jobs Numbers, Fires Head of Labor Stats Read Post »
All eyes were on North Carolina this week, as Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley formally announced a run for Senate in the key battleground state, backed with an endorsement from Donald Trump. Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, has also announced plans to run, kicking off what’s expected to be among the […]
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Did RNC Chair Michael Whatley Help Run a Fossil Fuel “Front Group”? Read Post »
Over the past few weeks, you might have noticed a renewed flare-up in a yearslong liberal freakout: Where is Barack Obama? That was the headline of a provocative essay in The Atlantic, which concluded that Obama had entered “the fierce lethargy of semi-retirement.” Cue the discourse: Articles, interviews, TikTok clapbacks, and everything in between. Everyone […]
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Where Is Obama? “I’m Out Here!” He Told Me. Watch the Interview. Read Post »
David Sirota can be a hard one to pin down. He’s a former speechwriter for Bernie Sanders. A onetime radio host. A co-writer of the Oscar-nominated “Don’t Look Up,” a dark comedy about the looming threat of climate change. (Spoiler: Most people do not, in fact, look up.) Today, Sirota is the editor-in-chief and founder […]
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The Real Conspiracy Behind the Texas Floods Read Post »
“It’s all gas, no brakes.” For David Hogg, a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, there’s little time away from politics right now, especially considering his $20 million campaign to disrupt his own party. Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, and gun control advocate, is looking to oust what […]
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David Hogg’s Fight for the Future of the Democratic Party Read Post »
Arlie Hochschild, an award-winning author and sociologist, has spent years talking with people living in rural parts of the country who have been hit hard by the loss of manufacturing jobs and shuttered coal mines. They’re the very people President Donald Trump argues will benefit most from his sweeping wave of tariffs and recent executive […]
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How Trump Exploits Working Class Pain Read Post »
The Internal Revenue Service, as the New York Times reported this week, is mulling Donald Trump’s request to revoke the tax-exempt status of Harvard University after Harvard refused to cave in to the president’s demands for a sweeping right-wing overhaul. The Times also reported, just yesterday, that a Treasury official had emailed a high-level official […]
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A Former IRS Chief on Trump’s Attempts to Gut—and Weaponize—His Agency Read Post »
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