These 3 States Could Use Millions in Public School Funding for Private Schools These 3 States Could Use Millions in Public School Funding for Private Schools
In Colorado, Kentucky, and Nebraska, referendums on “school choice” are on the ballot in the 2024 election.
Oct 28, 2024 / StudentNation / Owen Dahlkamp
Canary in a Coal Mine Canary in a Coal Mine
Ignore floods, hurricanes, wild fires! There are profits to be made!
Oct 25, 2024 / OppArt / Peter Kuper
With Another Government Shutdown Averted, the House Goes on Vacation With Another Government Shutdown Averted, the House Goes on Vacation
A stopgap funding bill passed on Wednesday, in spite of 82 “no” votes from Republicans. Then, Speaker Mike Johnson called a recess.
Sep 26, 2024 / Chris Lehmann
How Wisconsin Democrats Easily Defeated 2 Conservative Constitutional Amendments How Wisconsin Democrats Easily Defeated 2 Conservative Constitutional Amendments
The August partisan primary marked the second time since 1996 that voters in the state rejected a constitutional amendment.
Sep 6, 2024 / StudentNation / Liam Beran
The Democrats Are Finally Running a Teacher. What Took Them So Long? The Democrats Are Finally Running a Teacher. What Took Them So Long?
After decades of serving as a punching bag for the party’s neoliberals, public schools and the people who work in them are back in fashion.
Sep 3, 2024 / Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider
Why JD Vance Is Unpopular and Project 2025 Has Gone Underground Why JD Vance Is Unpopular and Project 2025 Has Gone Underground
The Heritage Foundation’s attempt to produce an intellectual and wonkish Trumpism turns off voters.
Aug 9, 2024 / Jeet Heer
Gina Raimondo Would Be a Terrible Choice for Treasury Secretary Gina Raimondo Would Be a Terrible Choice for Treasury Secretary
The commerce secretary is rumored to be the front-runner to head the Treasury Department in a Harris administration. Her coziness with corporations makes her a disastrous pick.
Aug 7, 2024 / Branko Marcetic
How the Freedom Caucus Bomb Throwers Guarantee Bloated Spending Bills How the Freedom Caucus Bomb Throwers Guarantee Bloated Spending Bills
By rejecting the appropriations process, House Republicans fuel the opaque, last-minute adoption of continuing resolutions and messy omnibus packages.
Aug 5, 2024 / Chris Lehmann
Working-Class Americans Prefer a “Hand Up” to a “Handout” Working-Class Americans Prefer a “Hand Up” to a “Handout”
Working- and middle-class Americans take pride in their work. If Democrats want to win their votes, they need to acknowledge and appeal to that pride, not dismiss or patronize it....
Jul 23, 2024 / Column / Erica Etelson
Medicare Dis-Advantage: Overpayments and Inequity Medicare Dis-Advantage: Overpayments and Inequity
The very “choice” that Medicare Advantage is said to offer is undermining Medicare’s promise of equal and universal care for seniors.
Jul 1, 2024 / Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein, and Steffie Woolhandler