The Democratic National Committee’s platform committee approved a draft of the party’s 2020 agenda this week and committee cochair Denis McDonough promptly described it as the “boldest Democratic platform in American history.” It’s not.
July 30, 2020For all that Trump seems eager to win reelection, he appears to have little interest in governing.
July 25, 2020Echoes of a poisonous past are also present in the White House today.
July 24, 2020They expire at the end of the month
July 24, 2020The pandemic has exposed certain deep and unexamined assumptions about the nature and value of work in the United States.
July 23, 2020Restrictive “voter identification” laws pushed by Republicans, and widely regarded to be ineffective and discriminatory, have cost taxpayers at least $36m in just a few states.
July 17, 2020One of the Supreme Court’s least-noticed rulings in the past few months just helped the one of the planet’s biggest financial firms — and one of Donald Trump’s billionaire pals — stomp on thousands of public-sector workers and retirees in one of America’s poorest states.
- July 15, 2020
Amid the worst public health crisis in a century and a devastating economic downturn that has thrown tens of millions out of work, more than five million people in the US lost their health insurance in just three months this year, shattering the previous record set during the entire annual period from 2008 to 2009.
