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February 10, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Kristi Noem’s Attempt to Diss Democrats Embarrassingly Backfires
Noem was trying to defend Elon Musk’s meddling in the government.
February 7, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Has Disturbing Response to DOGE’s Massive Overreach of Power
Donald Trump admitted that Elon Musk’s agency has access to too much sensitive data.
November 18, 2024
MagazineHeather Souvaine Horn
The True Threat to American Retirement
The wealthy don’t want to retire. The middle class can barely afford to. We need a better vision for old age.
August 14, 2024
Thomas Geoghegan
The Nice Round Number That Will Give Kamala Harris a Winning Message
Trump wants to eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits. Here’s how Harris can blow him out of the water.
August 13, 2024
Timothy Noah
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump Race to the Bottom on Taxes
Trump’s tax holiday for tips is bad; his tax holiday for Social Security benefits is worse.
August 12, 2024
Grace Segers
New Harris, Trump Tax Proposals Heavy on Promises, Light on Details
Experts warn that proposals to exempt taxes on tips and end taxes on Social Security benefits would have long-term negative effects.
March 22, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Latest Rage-Rant Reveals a Major Political Weakness
His eruption over President Biden’s attacks exposes one of the biggest vulnerabilities in his 2024 campaign.
March 20, 2024
Alex Shephard
The Real Corruption Risk Facing Trump
He’s desperate for money, but we should be worried less about foreign autocrats than rich Americans.
December 1, 2023
Grace Segers
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Social Security?
The retirement-age population is growing. The national birth rate is declining. This spells trouble for the cash-strapped program.
November 28, 2023
MagazineAlex Shephard
How the Club for Growth Fell Out With Trump
The pugilistic anti-tax group is feuding with the GOP’s most powerful figure—and getting pummeled.
July 19, 2023
Dean Baker
Chicago Has a Pension Crisis, but It’s Not Progressives’ Fault
One recent media report is emblematic of the kinds of errors the press makes when it sees a chance to put pressure on a Black progressive mayor.
June 19, 2023
Charlotte Kilpatrick
Republicans Aren’t Even Hiding Their War on Young People
A new GOP budget scheme would force the next generation to work longer and guarantee them an unlivable planet.
June 5, 2023
Alex Shephard
Trump’s Challengers Are Making the Same Mistakes All Over Again
They only want to talk about policy. That’s a huge error.
April 28, 2023
Alex Shephard
Kevin McCarthy Is Not Good at This
The “budget” passed by House Republicans is terrible for the party politically.
April 19, 2023
Alex Shephard
Ron DeSantis Is Having an Epic Disaster of a Week
The Florida governor made a pilgrimage to Capitol Hill to freshen up his moribund campaign. Things didn’t go as planned.
April 13, 2023
Pablo Manríquez
Here Comes the GOP Budget. Are Social Security and Medicare Really Safe?
Republicans say they won’t touch entitlements. But their top outside adviser on the debt limit fight has a long history to the contrary.
March 6, 2023
Jason Linkins
The Deficit Hawks Are Circling the Biden Administration
It’s been a season of solid economic ideas from the White House. But some bad ideas are starting to bubble up from Washington’s sordid corners.
March 2, 2023
Alex Shephard
Trump Has One Good Campaign Idea, and It’s Wrecking the GOP
In 2016, Trump won by promising not to cut Social Security and Medicare. Republicans refuse to learn from him.
February 27, 2023
Timothy Noah
Here’s How to Save Social Security—if Democrats Have the Stones to Do It
It’s true—our entitlement programs face bankruptcy. The Republicans’ ideas are nonsense. Here’s what the Democrats should say.
October 19, 2022
Matt Ford
The Next Debt Ceiling Crisis Will Be the Democrats’ Fault
Republicans have been publicly proclaiming their intention to take the economy hostage for a long while. There may not be time to stop them now.

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