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With a sweeping bow to reality, President Barack Obama unveiled his second economic stimulus program last week. He didn't call it that, of course, since "stimulus" has become taboo, but the proposals ...

Republicans have reached their 1984. I don't mean this in the Orwellian sense, though Republicans have more than their share of Orwellian impulses. Rather, I mean that the kind of ...

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Watching the centrist Democrats in Congress create more and more reasons why health care can't be fixed, I've been struck by a disquieting thought: Suppose our collective lack of response to Hurricane ...

The standard argument — really, the only argument — against raising the minimum wage is that it will lead to job loss. The argument is beloved by die-hard opponents of raising the wage because it ...

David Dayen and editor at large Harold Meyerson analyze the big winners and the key issues in the 2025 elections. Mamdani convinced New York City voters to back his agenda—now he needs to convince ...

At a time when Democrats and their party are, by virtually every index, moving left, a powerful center-right pressure group within the liberal universe has nonetheless sprung up. Funded by ...