Economy

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How Trump Plans to Manipulate US Economic Data to Gaslight the Public How Trump Plans to Manipulate US Economic Data to Gaslight the Public

The president and his GOP cronies want to tamper with government statistics and use deceptive budget gimmicks to lie about the impact of their massive tax and budget cuts.

Mar 10, 2025 / Sam Gustin

Democrats protest with signs (“Medicaid,” “Musk”) as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the Capitol building’s House chamber in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025.

How to Save the Democratic Party From Itself How to Save the Democratic Party From Itself

The flailing and unpopular party elite needs to be replaced with fighting economic populists.

Mar 7, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Our Addiction to Fossil Fuels…

Our Addiction to Fossil Fuels… Our Addiction to Fossil Fuels…

…and the oil companies are drug dealers.

Mar 7, 2025 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol on March 4, 2025, in Washington, DC. Vice President JD Vance and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson applaud behind him.

With Boasts, Threats, and Lies, Trump Proves He’s Always in Campaign Mode With Boasts, Threats, and Lies, Trump Proves He’s Always in Campaign Mode

The president understands that politics never stops. Democrats should do the same.

Mar 5, 2025 / Jeet Heer

A woman passes by posters that read “Enough Vultures—Argentine united in a national cause” in Buenos Aires, 2014.

How the US Courts Rewrote the Rules of International Trade How the US Courts Rewrote the Rules of International Trade

Shaina Potts’s Judicial Territory examines how the American legal system created an economic environment that subordinated the entire world to domestic business interests.

Mar 3, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Brett Christophers

Depraved Tyrant

Depraved Tyrant Depraved Tyrant

Your money and your life.

Feb 28, 2025 / Steve Brodner

The Reichstag building in Berlin on February 24, 2025.

To Defeat the Far Right, We Must Adopt an Anti-Fascist Economic Policy To Defeat the Far Right, We Must Adopt an Anti-Fascist Economic Policy

Opposition to the status quo must not be monopolized by the right-wing extremist visions of parties like Alternative für Deutschland.

Feb 28, 2025 / Isabella M. Weber

Elon Musk (L) shakes hands with Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump backstage during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show grounds on October 5, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Trump’s Greenland Obsession Is All About China Trump’s Greenland Obsession Is All About China

Greenland and its resources are merely the latest potential casualty of Trump’s quest for global domination and his fear of China’s economic power.

Feb 27, 2025 / Joshua Frank

Jeff Bezos at the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2025.

Democracy Dies at “The Washington Post” Democracy Dies at “The Washington Post”

…and oligarchy lives.

Feb 27, 2025 / John Nichols

A woman completes her ballot at a polling booth in Fairfax on November 5, 2024.

Ro Khanna and Thomas Geoghegan on What Is To Be Done Ro Khanna and Thomas Geoghegan on What Is To Be Done

On this episode of Start Making Sense, Ro Khanna and Thomas Geoghegan talk about how the Democrats can win back working class voters.

Feb 26, 2025 / Podcast / Jon Wiener

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