“If we’ve already been lifting people out of poverty, why for heaven’s sakes would we want to throw them back in poverty?”

Long sold as an island of stability in a sea of chaos, the nation has collapsed into misrule, requiring swift action against its kleptocratic rulers.

Monopoly power didn’t cause inflation. Pretending it did undermines the fight to revive antitrust.

Will major industries continue to insulate themselves from the climate crisis, or will they be made to address their own contributions to it?

Biden ended 2021 advancing some much needed measures to battle foreign kleptocrats. Next year, he can win the war.

Lawmakers agreed to raise the debt limit until 2023, but the fear of a breach is only mounting.

Nancy Pelosi believes that lawmakers should be allowed to participate in the “free market economy.” Well, they are “free” to leave office then!

The best place in the world to hide one’s money isn’t Switzerland or the Caymans. It’s the United States. That may be about to change.

The Build Back Better Act includes a one-year extension of the child tax credit, but the clock is ticking.

Oh, sure, they pretend to hate it. But inflation is a useful weapon against Democrats, and rich people and the business lobby benefit from it.

The perennial fight to raise the debt limit and avoid an economic calamity is once again on lawmakers’ docket, and this time things could get messy.

Better go out and get that health care now, folks, because come January 1, you’re going to start paying for it again.

It’s always been an illegal international cartel under U.S. law. Now would be a pretty good time to break it up.

The country’s system of national reserves makes zero sense.

Tucked away in the bipartisan law is a retroactive repeal of a vital tax credit that helped struggling employers retain their workforce during the pandemic.

The reconciliation bill remains the prize, and not picking a potential fight with Joe Manchin helps Democrats keep their eyes on it.

Don’t be hoodwinked. It isn’t Joe Biden who’s making record profits and gouging U.S. consumers. That would be corporate America.

Even with very real concerns about inflation and the global supply chain, the economy is in good shape. Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to say so.

Covid created this inflation spike. Ending Covid will curb it.

The idea could be met with pushback from Democrats hoping to extend the credit permanently or through 2025.