For many local governments, administering federal food benefits is increasingly becoming an unfunded mandate.
One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Posted inPolitics
How American Media Is Gaslighting Europeans on Air Conditioning
The continent is sweating not because of effete resistance to AC, but because of climate change.
Posted inHealth Care
Budget Cuts, Deaths, and the First Anniversary of Trump’s Disastrous Budget
July 4 is America’s birthday and the first anniversary of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the health care cuts that followed.
Posted inHealth Care
A Health Care Plan for the Midterms
If I were running for office this fall, here’s what I’d say: Protect families first.
Posted inNewsletter
The GOP’s Cruel Plans for Another Big Ugly Bill
The Republican Study Committee’s framework for a second reconciliation bill aims to make life even more miserable for immigrants, including legal residents.
Posted inMagazine
The GOP War on Nurses
To pay for tax cuts, Republicans cut graduate student loan support for female-dominated professions. That turns out to be bad policy and terrible politics.
Posted inMagazine
How Democrats Can Save Social Security—and Win Elections
The trust fund can be rescued from insolvency without unpopular taxes on workers, and with significant benefit to economic productivity and the security of the middle class.
Posted inGovernment
SNAP-Ed’s Demise Exposes MAHA’s Hypocrisy
The nation’s largest nutrition education program helped millions of low-income Americans make healthier food choices.
Posted inPolitics
The Republicans’ Reliability Ruse
The Trump administration is kneecapping wind and solar generation under the false narrative that they jeopardize reliability—nothing could be further from the truth.
Posted inPodcast
An Economic Crisis Is Inevitable
Economist Rob Shapiro warns that Trump’s policies and threats to the Fed could push the U.S. into a severe recession.
