Category: Politics
Freedom Caucus Takes Majority Party Hostage
by Peter Lindstrom | Jun 13, 2017 | PoliticsJim Jordan has been the Republican representative from Ohio’s 4th District for 11 years, so when he held a town hall meeting last February, it shouldn’t have been big news. But Jordan is an original founder of the Freedom Caucus, and unlike many of his colleagues now avoiding town hall meetings or hiring companies to […]
Reaganomics Redux, But Worse
by Jeff Madrick | Jun 5, 2017 | Economy, PoliticsThe tax cut proposals first announced by President Donald Trump this April are, simply put, a fraud. They are about greed and politics, not economic growth or true tax reform. The policy has been proved wrong twice already. As a broadly faithful rerun of the Reaganomics of the early 1980s, Trump’s policies, should they be […]
Deforming the Law
by Lou Dubose | May 17, 2017 | Legal Affairs, PoliticsIn an urgent phone call, Ralph Nader described a Republican tort law package that is being “rammed through the House” without proper hearings and almost no attention from the press. Any hearings on the bills have been pro forma, at best. But there has been some notable reporting, in the The Washington Post and Bloomberg […]
The Neo-Nazi Peaceniks
by Trip Brennan | May 12, 2017 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsPrior to the 2016 presidential election, I would bet that most people shared my mental image of the modern-day neo-Nazi movement: a hodgepodge of tatted-up skinheads, gun-toting militiamen, hooded Ku Klux Klan members, and miscellaneous bloodthirsty Turner Diaries cosplayers. While those people still exist, an offshoot of the movement—which calls itself the alternative right, or […]
Educated in America
by María Nolasco | May 8, 2017 | PoliticsI never imagined it would be this frightening. Or this difficult. Living in the shadows, unable to see my parents drive our car without fear, or to apply for jobs, all because we lack a nine-digit identification number. More frightening, the everyday worry that my parents will not be home at the end of my […]
Bad Faith Documentary
