The Long, Cruel Career of Rudy Giuliani
After decades of polluting the political landscape with authoritarianism and race-baiting, is Rudy Giuliani's career finally over?
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It’s Bernie Versus Biden Now
Although last night’s Super Tuesday results were a blow to the Bernie Sanders campaign, the contest has now been radically clarified: it is finally a one-on-one clash between Joe Biden’s corporate centrism and Sanders’s class-conscious populism.
The Backroom Deal That Could’ve Given Us Single-Payer
It’s not so much that Obama “sold us out” to a powerful constituency as that he picked the wrong powerful constituency. A quick look at the financial details reveals that health insurance nationalization was always the real “path of least resistance.”
The Workers Our Coronavirus Debate Is Leaving Out
The media and the Democratic Party establishment’s singular focus on paid sick leave leaves out millions of contract and informal workers. We need to think much bigger — now.
Dignifying Care
It's a blessing that people are living longer. But handling the elder boom with justice means changing how we treat care work.
Republicans Have Named Their Price to Raise the Debt Ceiling
Tax leniency for the rich and austerity for workers and young people are standard Republican fare. What’s notable this time is using government default as leverage for those tax breaks and austerity. If the GOP pulls it off, it will set a frightening precedent.
A Biden Win and a GOP Senate Spells Stalemate — or Worse
Nothing is certain yet, but we may be gearing up for what amounts to a Biden-McConnell coalition government. The Left will be up against a split government composed of two parties bent on pushing austerity and war.
The Politics of Social Distancing
Elites have the money and resources to hide in their homes and ride out the coronavirus pandemic till kingdom come. The rest of us will need a better plan.
Democracy Is Good, Actually
There are moments when even the most committed of democrats find themselves despairing of political democracy. But the system has proven again and again to be the last best hope of ordinary people in defending their pursuit of happiness against tyrants of all stripes — both public and private.
Inflation Is Slowing Down. But Working-Class Life in the US Is Still Hard to Afford.
The inflation rate is cooling, providing a respite for workers. Yet there’s a reason why many are still unhappy with the economy: from health care to housing to childcare, life in the US is more unaffordable than ever.
Dealignment Is Real. We Can Help Reverse It.
Matt Karp on how a political movement beating the drum for working-class populism can restore fraying ties between blue-collar workers and the Left.
Bernie Sanders Can Still Win the Nomination and the Presidency
There is no use in sugarcoating the scale of last night’s defeat. But there is still a pathway to victory for Bernie Sanders.
Big Pharma Is Threatening to Withhold Medicine in Protest of Regulation
The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act introduced modest drug pricing restrictions. In response, big pharma companies — which have seen record profits — are threatening to slow the rollout of a lifesaving drug.
The Washington Post Deserves 324 Billion Pinocchios for Its Attacks on Bernie Sanders
For years now, fact-checking has been wielded by mainstream journalists against Bernie Sanders’s left agenda. Case in point: Jeff Bezos’s newspaper’s recent attacks on Sanders for telling the truth about how the Republican tax cuts benefited the rich like Bezos.
In the Fight for a Green New Deal, Schools Are the New Front Lines
A major socialist-led grassroots campaign is underway to pass Jamaal Bowman’s Green New Deal for Public Schools — a strategically savvy measure that combines forthright climate action with large-scale investment in working-class schools.
When Capitalists Literally Suck Your Blood
A budding startup will sell you a few liters of young people’s blood as a supposed anti-aging treatment. It’s grotesque — but only slightly more so than the rest of the American for-profit medical system.
Antiabortion Democrat Henry Cuellar Is Now Seeking to Gut Labor Rights
Henry Cuellar, the conservative, antiabortion Democratic congressman — who Nancy Pelosi called a “fighter for hardworking families” — has shocked the labor movement with a radical bill seeking to eviscerate workers’ rights.
Issue 45: Letters
Another failed experiment in socialist democracy.
Tipped Workers Don’t Need Tax Relief. They Need Real Wages.
Donald Trump’s No Tax on Tips policy is a major part of his appeal to working-class Americans. But tipping is itself a strange and flawed system invented to preserve inequality. Critics worry Trump’s policy will only intensify tipping culture.
The Graying of Bankruptcy
For decades, capitalists have held down wages and cut social programs. Now the chickens have come home to roost: older Americans are going bankrupt at record rates.