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The more extravagant it becomes, the more contempt it secretly conveys. Will Trump ever care?

Most able-bodied Medicaid recipients already have jobs, but those who don’t should receive health care too.

How does the president’s brand of kleptocracy work? It turns out rentier politics is even more lucrative than rentier capitalism.

Avoiding an income-tax increase is nice, but that’s not the bill’s greatest gift to the rich.

Maybe it’s not so mysterious after all: A blockbuster new report reveals that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem secretly took $80,000 in dark-money political donations for herself.

Has there ever been a budget bill more mendacious than Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill?

Say goodbye to the only decent revenue-raiser in the president’s 2017 tax law.

There is promise—and peril—in the government’s “golden share” in U.S. Steel.

It’s getting harder not to read the Federal Reserve chairman’s hesitation to lower interest rates as anything other than a comment on Trump’s incompetence.

Yes, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. But the far bigger menace is the monstrous growth in wealth concentration over five decades that made a Trump presidency possible—and maybe inevitable. Here’s how we let it happen.

The Senate’s version will blow up the deficit just as much as the House’s—and its Medicaid cuts are deeper.

This is where climate denial meets indifference to worker safety.

More than an odious personal prejudice, it’s also his go-to—and inaccurate—metaphor for the U.S. government.

First, they came for Lelo Zeferino. Now—amid the administration’s escalations in Los Angeles—the administration is prosecuting David Huerta.

Call it “Make America Dead Again”: If it’s a peaceful anti-ICE protest, send in the Marines. If it’s a hurricane, no disaster aid for you!

They were a disaster when Harry Truman forced them on federal workers—but at least he demanded loyalty to the United States, not to the president himself.

The person poised to take over DOGE from Trump’s pet billionaire is the guy who’s actually been running it all along.

The law is clear, and the legislature’s powers are unambiguous. But Republicans in Washington have fully knuckled under.

The legal reasoning on this point is unbelievably sloppy—even for this court.

Medicaid was once a little-regarded program. It is now a policy heavyweight—and with an enrollment larger than Medicare’s, it’s very, very popular.