Robert Kuttner: Things Will Get Better for Biden
Robert Kuttner, editor of The American Prospect, predicts that Biden will turn around public opinion before the mid-term elections. Biden has been the target of...
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Heather Cox Richardson Looks Back on 2021
Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian at Boston College. I enjoy reading her views, which are always well-informed. She writes: Heather Cox RichardsonDec 31...
Jan Resseger: If Build Back Better Dies, Here Is What’s Lost
At the beginning of December, Jan Resseger wrote about why President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda is so important. At the moment, it’s prospects are...
Familiar Faces on Biden Education Team
I somehow missed a story that appeared in Education Week last February, identifying the background of Biden appointees to the U.S. Department of Education. What...
President Manchin? Or the Grinch Who Stole Christmas?
He begins: Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect, assesses the role of Senator Manchin in sinking President Biden’s signature legislation. Manchin surely sunk his...
Jan Resseger: Biden’s “Build Back Better Program” Would Lift Millions of Children Out of Poverty
Jan Resseger, one of our best informed bloggers and social justice advocates, lauds President Biden’s Build Back Better program for its benefits for children. It...
Republicans Stoop to Role of Schoolyard Bully
This article by Ed Montini in the Arizona Republic explains the childish behavior of Republican leaders, who engage in taunts instead of reasoned discourse about...
Harold Meyerson on Biden’s Half Full, Half Empty Plan
After months of negotiations among Democrats over the fate of President Biden’s historic $3.5 trillion proposal, a compromise seems to have been reached (although nothing...
Harold Meyerson: Two Senate Democrats May Be Dooming Their Party
Harold Meyerson of The American Prospect warns that Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Senator Krysten Sinema of Arizona threaten the fate of their...
The.Ink Interviews the Architect of the Billionaires’ Tax
Anand Giridharadas interviewed Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, who is sponsoring a ”billionaires’ tax,” which would tax assets, not just income. This tax on the...