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  • Money & Politics
    GOP Angles for More Campaign Cash, Less Disclosure
    December 7, 2017
    | Arn Pearson
    Policy riders buried in tax and spending bills would let in more political money, less light.
  • Democracy & Government
    The Republican Long Game
    December 6, 2017
    | Neal Gabler
    Republicans have long dreamed of destroying the social safety net once and for all; this bill finally threatens to accomplish that.
  • History
    Trump Wants to Make America Great Again: But Great Like When?
    August 16, 2017
    Three historians weigh in on where in America's past President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans might take us. #MAGA is a time machine with several stops. Take our guided tour.
  • History
    Forward to Yesteryear! The New Gilded Age
    August 16, 2017
    | Bernard Weisberger
    The reel of Trumpian “reforms” always spins backward.
  • How the Great Society Democratized Our Economy
    May 23, 2014
    | Jeff Faux
    Like the New Deal before it, the Great Society changed the way Americans thought about the relationship of the government to the economy.
  • 8 Charts That Show Why Racial Equality Is a Myth
    May 22, 2014
    | John Light
    We haven't come very far at all since the civil rights victories of the 1960s.
  • Setting the Working Class Against the Poor Doesn't Work Anymore
    January 10, 2014
    | Robert Reich
    Conservatives have pursued a divide-and-conquer strategy intended to convince working-class whites that the poor were their enemies. It’s starting to backfire.
  • Historical Tirades Against the 'Safety Net'
    October 1, 2013 | Updated August 14, 2014
    | John Light
    House Republicans were willing to shut down the government over Obamacare. We take a look back at other critics and roadblocks to social programs that are popular today.


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