How a sick obsession is killing workers, democracy, and our planet.

GOP lawmakers in Washington want someone else to make the tough choice of slashing nutrition benefits—and to take the blame for who gets left behind.

Don’t fall for the “coherence fallacy.” The president believes (mistakenly) that he’s figured out how to get rid of the progressive income tax.

Companies like DoorDash and Grubhub made a big show of standing by their workers in Trump’s first term. Now, with deportation threats looming, their silence is deafening.

Liberal lawmakers need a real message on this issue because the one they have now is nonexistent at best—and a mirror of the right’s cruel ideology at its worst.

The president-elect’s first term was a circus of self-dealing and plutocratic capture. His second term may end up making that look like an innocent era.

SEIU merged back with the AFL-CIO, and the Biden administration averted the threat of a second dockworker strike.

That’s the lesson of 2024, and John Adams thought about it a lot.

While the current wave of discriminatory policies will do obvious harm to the transgender community, they’re also meant to distract from the myriad ways we’re all getting fleeced.

On money matters, I once supported the president-elect with full throat. I now see how his ideas could take down our nation.

We won’t be talking student loan relief once Trump takes office. We’ll be talking about the abolition of the Department of Education.

Musk and others helped the GOP run rings around Democrats in the info wars. I asked three leading contenders for party chair how they’d fix this.

A renewed zeal for regulatory reform among Democrats shouldn’t tear down the infrastructure that keeps us safe, but it should eliminate all the obstacles that make it annoying to access.

The world’s richest man is poised to go after the country’s most impoverished citizens under the false pretense of cracking down on fraud.

The members of the billionaire executive class have billed themselves as great men of history beyond scrutiny and reproach. This is the year that shattered the illusion.

The former president’s tax plan is a shell game that replaces real labor power with meager rewards.

You probably think that shows corporations are too powerful. I think this shows corporations are enslaved by Wall Street, and should be set free.

It’s been a fantastic week for middle-out economics.

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program was created to get low-income families back on their feet. But does it actually work?

A new study reveals a staggering number of companies pay their CEOs more than they pay in taxes.