Trumpcare Is the Most Unpopular Legislation in History Trumpcare Is the Most Unpopular Legislation in History
George Zornick on the health-care debacle, Sarah Leonard on socialism’s appeal, and Jedediah Purdy on Thoreau.
Jun 22, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Who Is Getting Rich Off the Secret Health-Care Overhaul? Who Is Getting Rich Off the Secret Health-Care Overhaul?
A small group of people knows what the public doesn’t, and that’s ripe for scandal.
Jun 21, 2017 / George Zornick
Was a Cuban Missile Crisis Averted in Syria, the Transatlantic Alliance Ruptured, and Intelgate Exposed? Was a Cuban Missile Crisis Averted in Syria, the Transatlantic Alliance Ruptured, and Intelgate Exposed?
Though briefly noted by the mainstream media, we may have witnessed three essential truths about the new Cold War.
Jun 21, 2017 / Stephen F. Cohen
Jon Ossoff’s Loss Should Be a Lesson to Corporate Democrats Jon Ossoff’s Loss Should Be a Lesson to Corporate Democrats
It’s time to bury the Panera Bread strategy.
Jun 21, 2017 / D.D. Guttenplan
California Is Massively Expanding One of the Most Effective Tools to Make Work Pay Better California Is Massively Expanding One of the Most Effective Tools to Make Work Pay Better
The number of families helped by the Golden State’s Earned Income Tax Credit is about to triple.
Jun 21, 2017 / Joe Sanberg
Agents of Inequality: How Wealth Managers to the Super-Rich Undermine Society and What We Can Do About It Agents of Inequality: How Wealth Managers to the Super-Rich Undermine Society and What We Can Do About It
An expert on their secretive world explains how these shadowy practitioners of financial trickery help facilitate widespread tax evasion—and undermine democratic government.
Jun 21, 2017 / Chuck Collins
Running for Governor, Stacey Abrams Has a Plan to Turn Georgia Blue Running for Governor, Stacey Abrams Has a Plan to Turn Georgia Blue
She united the Democratic Party’s competing wings to launch her historic campaign. Now she has to turn out a different kind of electorate.
Jun 20, 2017 / Joan Walsh
This Is How the Trump Administration Will Privatize Our Infrastructure This Is How the Trump Administration Will Privatize Our Infrastructure
Public-private partnerships have been disasters for American cities. Naturally, Trump loves them.
Jun 20, 2017 / David Dayen
If Trump Is Julius Caesar, Then Americans Are a Confused and Violent Mob If Trump Is Julius Caesar, Then Americans Are a Confused and Violent Mob
Julius Caesar is hardly an endorsement of assassination—but neither is it the celebration of “small-d democrats” that the Public Theater wants it to be.
Jun 20, 2017 / Column / Katha Pollitt
If the Media Keep Ignoring Health Care, We’ll Lose It If the Media Keep Ignoring Health Care, We’ll Lose It
The Senate is attempting to gut Obamacare under a shroud of secrecy, and the strategy is working.
Jun 20, 2017 / Jeremy Slevin