David Dayen and Prospect co-founder Bob Kuttner look at the politics and policy of the end of the government shutdown.
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show ...
It’s long past time to jettison Summers as hopelessly contaminated. But there are far more serious reasons to dump Summers than his gross connections with Jeffrey Epstein.
Turning off the logistically complicated SNAP system—which relies on the federal government, states, and private companies to function in concert—and then trying to turn it back on quickly is no easy ...
The stereotype of the welfare queen, typically a single Black mother, was employed to rationalize the pause in SNAP benefits, and it proved effective.
Like their colleagues across the country, Mississippi River corridor mayors are on the front lines speeding food to desperate residents. Six out of the ten Mississippi River states have more than 10 ...
The shutdown enabled the Democrats to highlight the Republicans’ withdrawal of health coverage from millions of Americans, ...
The recent release of more emails is only the latest in about 10,000 stories implicating Donald Trump in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuses. What were the Justice Department and congressional Democrats doing ...
Multiple Democratic groups, House members, and candidates say it’s time for the Senate minority leader to go. It turns out ...
Senate Democrats actually know how to use their power to counter Donald Trump and ensure that legislative funding gets ...
Starbucks baristas didn’t want to go on strike. But after four years of waiting for a contract at any of their hundreds of unionized stores, 12,000 workers at one of the world’s biggest fast-food ...
Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican ...