Economic Policy

Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell

What’s Even Scarier Than Donald Trump? What’s Even Scarier Than Donald Trump?

Take a look at the Senate budget.

Oct 18, 2017 / Editorial / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Wisconsin Farmer

Trump Sides With Big Agriculture Over Family Farmers Trump Sides With Big Agriculture Over Family Farmers

Even some Republicans are upset over this corporate handout. 

Oct 18, 2017 / David Dayen

Panama Papers Protest

How the Swindlers of Silicon Valley Avoid Paying Taxes How the Swindlers of Silicon Valley Avoid Paying Taxes

Now they’re pushing an ingenious new dodge that would allow them to pay even less.

Oct 17, 2017 / Naked Democracy / William Greider

Doug Jones

Why Democrats Need a 50-State Strategy Why Democrats Need a 50-State Strategy

There is a real desire for progressive solutions in every part of the country—including areas that many Democrats have, unfortunately, written off.

Oct 10, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Special Investigation: How America’s Biggest Bank Paid Its Fine for the 2008 Mortgage Crisis—With Phony Mortgages!

Special Investigation: How America’s Biggest Bank Paid Its Fine for the 2008 Mortgage Crisis—With Phony Mortgages! Special Investigation: How America’s Biggest Bank Paid Its Fine for the 2008 Mortgage Crisis—With Phony Mortgages!

Alleged fraud put JPMorgan Chase hundreds of millions of dollars ahead; ordinary homeowners, not so much.

Oct 5, 2017 / Feature / David Dayen

Canovanas, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Needs Massive Emergency Aid Now—and an End to Austerity Puerto Rico Needs Massive Emergency Aid Now—and an End to Austerity

The island has become a target not only for rapacious vulture funds but also for exponents of Katrina-style “disaster capitalism.”

Sep 27, 2017 / Editorial / Ed Morales

Black Voters Casting Ballots

Democrats Must Stop Taking the Black Working Class for Granted Democrats Must Stop Taking the Black Working Class for Granted

A new report from Working America found that black Ohioans were suffering economically during the 2016 presidential election—but did not think a Democratic president would make a d...

Sep 26, 2017 / Collier Meyerson

Macron protest

The False Promise of Macron’s Labor Reforms The False Promise of Macron’s Labor Reforms

The French president’s proposed labor code would have grave consequences for workers.

Sep 22, 2017 / Cole Stangler

The Financial Industry Is Its Own Best Enemy

The Financial Industry Is Its Own Best Enemy The Financial Industry Is Its Own Best Enemy

Equifax’s blunder does more than any white paper to demonstrate the need for financial reform.

Sep 21, 2017 / Editorial / Mike Konczal

DeVos Hearing

Betsy DeVos Is Helping Education Profiteers Rip Off Students Betsy DeVos Is Helping Education Profiteers Rip Off Students

Left for dead under Obama, the industry is suddenly getting everything it wants.

Sep 15, 2017 / David Dayen

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