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1. House MAGA Republicans will be less of a force. It was supposed to be their ace in the hole, their single biggest bargaining leverage. But in the...
R epublican leaders have mastered the art of manufacturing crises to divert the public’s attention from the real crisis of our era – the...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Joe Biden reached a deal last night to raise the debt ceiling and prevent the United States from defaulting on its...
The real significance of Ron DeSantis’s presidential announcement on Twitter had little to do with DeSantis but everything to do with Musk. It’s...
O n 22 October 1985, Treasury Secretary James A Baker III told congressional leaders that if Congress failed to raise the debt ceiling by the end of...
The economic goal should be more jobs at higher wages. Right? Yet the Federal Reserve, corporate economists and the Republican party have turned the...
For a second week, Montana Republicans have blocked Democratic transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr from participating in a debate over proposed...
The most obvious question in American politics today should be: why is the guy who committed treason just over two years ago allowed to run for...
America no longer has two parties devoted to a democratic system of self-government. We have a Democratic party, which – notwithstanding a few...
In February, Ron DeSantis led Donald Trump 45% to 41% in the Yahoo/YouGov poll. But Trump’s indictment has reversed the race. Just after Trump said...
One of the biggest challenges to the future of American democracy is unfolding this Tuesday, but not in Manhattan. It’s occurring in Wisconsin....
You’re going to hear three basic criticisms of Trump’s indictment. Each has some merit, but ultimately fails. Let me rebut each in turn. Wrong. In...
W hen I was secretary of labor 30 years ago, one major goal was to crack down on companies that employed children, in violation of the Fair Labor...
The global financial system is facing a crisis of confidence. Which makes this week’s meeting of America’s central bankers critically important....
G reg Becker, the former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank, sold $3.6m of SBV shares on 27 February, just days before the bank disclosed a large loss that...
On Friday, bank regulators closed Silicon Valley Bank, based in Santa Clara, California. Its failure was the second largest in US history and the...
P resident Biden is proposing to trim the federal budget deficit by close to $3tn over the next 10 years. He was an FDR-like spender in the first two...
A s chairman of the Federal Reserve board, Jerome Powell is making his semi-annual policy report to Congress this week. I have an urgent question for...
We’re at a Frankenstein moment. An artificial intelligence boom is taking over Silicon Valley, with high-tech firms racing to develop everything...
Biden’s State of the Union address is a reminder of how good a president he has been, but majorities believe he has made no progress
The president’s domestic successes offer a rebuke to disciples of Reagan: the ‘free market’ has never existed
The rich used to pay taxes. Now they loan money to the US government – at a profit that everyone else pays for
The discussion about Biden’s re-election conflates five different questions. Let’s look at them one by one
There is, however, a shortage of jobs paying sufficient wages to attract workers to fill job openings
Last week, under its Biden-appointed chair, the Federal Trade Commission proposed a new rule banning non-compete agreements – and it’s a big deal
The Fed is putting people out of work to reduce workers’ bargaining power and reduce inflation. They’ve got it all wrong
In exchange for backing a relatively moderate Republican such as Fred Upton or David Joyce as speaker, Democrats should demand they get equal seats on...
The Republican party has collapsed under its own contradictions, competing impulses and fear of the base
Setbacks notwithstanding, we are better today than we were 50 years ago, 20 years ago, even a year ago
For them, and for everyone who still regards them as heroes, there is no morality in business or economics. The winnings go to the most ruthless
Republican lawmakers know Trump is unpopular – but some feverishly pro-Trump voters have the party in a bind
A great deal of the media are concentrated in the hands of too few people, who are often too attuned to what their corporate owners or political...
Interest rate hikes mean that workers and consumers take the hit. Here are other tools to address inflation
Biden ordered officials to focus on deporting immigrants convicted of felonies, rather than undocumented people en masse. I applaud that decision
The biggest loser in a Raphael Warnock victory won’t be his Republican rival, Herschel Walker. It will be Donald Trump