
Author: Scott Lemieux

This is the problem with relying on reconciliation: Democrats suffered a critical defeat in their bid to preserve President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package on Thursday after the Senate’s to
Today’s vote on the Equality Act makes it clear that Neil Gorsuch is an outlier rather than a harbringer among Republican elites. The Republican objection to the bill is that it would…forb

It looks like Joe Biden won’t get his first choice for OMB director, based on the important principle of “Joe Manchin needs to do something to demonstrate his independence from noted Trots
Preferably out of a cannon: The White House moved toward reasserting control of the U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday even as its Republican postmaster general defiantly told Congress he would press fo

And they’re not even hiding their motives: After record turnout in 2020, Republican-controlled states appear to be in a race to the bottom to see who can pass the most egregious new barriers to
This is not only good news, it is much better news than the lede would indicate: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine works safel

This is a very important reform: Illinois has become the first state to completely eliminate cash bail, a result of a push by state legislators to end a practice they say keeps poor people in jail for
He’s going down swinging, give him that: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Tuesday pushed a debunked conspiracy theory to try to absolve Donald Trump and his supporters of guilt in the violent and dead
- Trying to prevent the abuse of athletes
- Stupid Senate rules to deny workers a fair wage
- Homophobia and transophbia remain hard Republican orthodoxy
- Working from seven to eleven every night
- Justice served
- State Failures
- Please come back so we can kick you around some more
- The Gigification of America
- On Food Activism
- Superman in 2021 Rural America