Monica Potts

After widening for decades, the gap narrowed thanks to pandemic-era government spending. But now we’re reverting to the status quo.

The party is responding to Trump’s authoritarian abuses with timid messaging that sounds as if it’s been poll-tested to death—because it probably has been.

Remember all of those reasonable, pandemic-era work policies? Poof, they’re all gone. And it’s hurting our entire economy.

Yes, his approval rating is tanking and he’s still trying to shake the Epstein scandal. But he’s been foreshadowing this authoritarian power grab for years—and yet Democrats still weren’t ready for it.

Voters in GOP-controlled states are passing progressive policies at the ballot—only to watch Republican legislators repeal them. Will it change how voters choose candidates?

A recent study highlighted by The New York Times casts doubt on this progressive approach to helping struggling families. But the study is hardly definitive—and we’re missing the bigger picture.

Alas, they love it for all the wrong reasons.

While Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book steered clear of the labor movement, centrist journalist Josh Barro has ignited a debate about whether unions stand in the way of abundance.

If the GOP really cared about meritocracy, they wouldn’t gut programs that help low-income students—especially those who also have a job or care for a child—earn a college degree.

The spending cuts could force many rural hospitals to close. That wouldn’t just be a crisis for rural health care but for rural employment too.

This is the dilemma the Democrats face as the Republicans push to impose onerous hurdles on Medicaid in their budget bill.

The scant polling evidence suggests that corruption is not a decisive factor for voters—yet there is a way for Democrats to leverage the president’s malfeasance in next year’s midterm elections.

Millions of people in the United States provide essential care for children, aging parents, or loved ones with disabilities. It shouldn’t be this hard to make it work.

The way we look after the elderly in this country is broken. But is funneling money into home care enough to solve the problem?

Eight essays from women in policy, public affairs, and media

Those left behind by Silicon Valley’s technology boom struggle to stay in the place they call home.