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July 5, 2022
Alex Shephard
Mitt Romney Is in Denial
The Utah Republican’s analysis of the problem with American politics is fundamentally flawed.
July 22, 2021
Alex Shephard
Mitch McConnell Dusts Off the GOP’s Debt Ceiling Scam
Republicans are pretending to be the party of fiscal responsibility again.
April 19, 2021
MagazineRyann Liebenthal
The Long Fight to Cancel Student Loans
How student debtors took a radical idea to the mainstream
February 1, 2019
Alex Shephard
Howard Schultz Is Democrats’ Chance to Bury Clintonism Forever
Liberals have dismissed the former Starbucks CEO's potential White House bid. They should start taking it seriously.
January 29, 2019
Alex Shephard
Run, Howard, Run!
A failed 2020 bid by the former Starbucks CEO would prove that Americans aren't clamoring for a centrist businessman as president.
July 17, 2017
MagazineKim Phillips-Fein
Trump’s Austerity Politics
How the president’s budget proposal grew out of New York’s financial crisis in the 1970s.
December 19, 2013
Mark Schmitt
2013 Was the Year the Grand Bargain Died. Good Riddance.
The magical thinking of the deficit-obsessed
October 16, 2013
Marc Tracy
What Happens to the National Debt Clock If the U.S. Defaults?

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