Joe Biden

Manchin and the GOP smear the poor to avoid helping them

By Noah Berlatsky / March 8, 2022 /

Cash payments lift kids out of poverty. To the rightwing, though, that can’t be. The poor are poor, because they deserve their poverty.

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Introducing trust-busting Joe

By John Stoehr / March 3, 2022 /

It’s been 40 years since a president demanded more competition.

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A Democrat says the quiet part out loud. The Republicans are democracy’s ‘domestic enemies’

By John Stoehr / February 28, 2022 /

The time for hardball is now.

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‘Do we want to live in a world where Putin calls the shots?’

By John Stoehr / February 16, 2022 /

Patriots say no. Rightwingers say maybe.

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To US oligarchs, majority views on taxing the rich count for little

By Noah Berlatsky / February 14, 2022 /

If we fail to restrain the corruption of moneyed elites, the United States may go further down a path that’s difficult to retrace.

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On Ukraine, the left and right parrot Putin’s propaganda

By John Stoehr / February 4, 2022 /

Look, Russia is the real aggressor.

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When it comes to Supreme Court picks, just remember that we are living in a period of white backlash against Black progress

By John Stoehr / February 2, 2022 /

Moral panics are an American tradition.

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Federal prosecutors are now investigating fake Electoral College certificates, the latest clues that could lead to Trump

By Lindsay Beyerstein / January 28, 2022 /

Similarities in language and formatting between the fake certificates suggests a far-reaching conspiracy orchestrated at the national level. 

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The confirmation process will show whether Biden understands the Black solidarity and power that put him in the White House

By John Stoehr / January 27, 2022 /

“Is Biden up to the challenge of this moment?” 

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The Republican death drive: Refusing to sacrifice anything means sacrificing everything

By John Stoehr / January 26, 2022 /

Why are they killing themselves? Let’s turn to Sigmund Freud.

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