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Rule by Contractor

1 month 2 weeks ago
DOGE is not about waste and efficiency—it’s about privatization.
Brett Heinz

Trump’s Tariff Fantasy

1 month 2 weeks ago
His projection of a U.S. manufacturing boom behind tariff walls leaves out retaliation by other countries and a trade war.
Robert Kuttner

Trump’s Tariff Charade

1 month 2 weeks ago
Today is billed as ‘Liberation Day,’ as Trump plans to unveil his master tariff program at 4 p.m. The details are still obscure, even to Trump.
Robert Kuttner

How Corporate Pardons Create Monopolies

1 month 2 weeks ago
Rocket wants to became the only mortgage company in America. The CFPB found its tactics to be illegal—until Donald Trump let the company off the hook.
David Dayen

Erasing Lincoln

1 month 2 weeks ago
The capital city of Nebraska will have to change its name.
Robert Kuttner

The Last Abundance Agenda

1 month 2 weeks ago
In the 1980s, Wall Street vowed to make housing more affordable through deregulation of housing finance. The result was the 2008 crisis.
David Dayen

Charging Down

1 month 2 weeks ago
Trump’s energy policy is hurting red states. Do they care?
Emma Janssen

The Trump Factor in the Middle East

1 month 3 weeks ago
Alternately belligerent, self-enriching, militaristic, and realist, Trump’s haphazard path is different from the establishment’s slow road to obliterating Gaza.
Jonathan Guyer

Trump Stomps Workers

1 month 3 weeks ago
Stripping bargaining rights from most federal employees is one more way he’s converting a constitutional government into a monarch’s court.
Harold Meyerson