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September 29, 2020
Trump Paid Less in Taxes Than a Schoolteacher or a Nurse
What’s most shocking about the president’s taxes are the things that are legal.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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April 9, 2020
The Deficit Is Exploding! And That’s a Good Thing.
The fact that nobody’s asking where the money is coming from shows how much our politics have changed since 2008.
Robert Pollin
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June 18, 2019
Suicide Is Becoming America’s Latest Epidemic
Suicide rates in the US have skyrocketed as both income inequality and the percent of uninsured adults continue to grow.
Rajan Menon
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March 15, 2019
Democrats Must Expose Trump’s Betrayal of Working People
Forget the scandals and the tweets. What really matters is the looting.
Robert L. Borosage
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February 17, 2019
Amazon’s Defeat Is Local and Global
By tying their fight against Amazon to bigger structural problems, activists in Queens showed us a way forward for transnational anti-corporate politics.
Jamie Merchant
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January 11, 2019
Sherrod Brown Is the Real Deal—Could He Win It All in 2020?
What’s the Ohio senator’s greatest appeal among grassroots Democrats? Authenticity, with a long track record of defending workers and fighting Wall Street and corporate power.
William Greider
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November 26, 2018
GM’s Plant Closures Confirm the President is a Liar and a Fool
He has never cared about the men and women who build cars in places like Michigan and Ohio.
John Nichols
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November 15, 2018
Moving Beyond the Earned-Income Tax Credit
The EITC might be the most progressive part of the tax code, but it still fails to reach the country’s neediest.
Colin McAuliffe and Sean McElwee
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October 30, 2018
The Nuns Are Back on the Bus
Why 10 Catholic sisters are on a road trip to spread the gospel of tax reform.
Stephanie Russell-Kraft
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October 17, 2018
The Austerity Hawks Are Coming for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
Mitch McConnell just revealed the scheme: cut taxes for the billionaires class, create deficits, and then shred the social safety net.
John Nichols