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Republicans don’t serve their states. They immiserate them
Why are people from states with the worst child poverty problems determined to kill the Child Tax Credit expansion program?
Joe Manchin
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Kyrsten Sinema doesn’t get the credit she deserves
Yeah, she’s annoying. That’s democratic politics for you
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The Inflation Reduction Act is what a democracy can achieve when fascists are prevented from stabbing it in the back
Thank Mitch McConnell for proof of concept.
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Go ahead, celebrate. You need to
To win, the broad left has to do more than criticize.
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The Editorial Board explains the Inflation Reduction Act
“I struggle to find enough superlatives to describe this deal.”
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The Schumer-Manchin bill is a ‘conservative’ BFD
Minimizing suffering, maximizing opportunity.
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Biden wants to fight inflation by soaking the rich, but centrists and the GOP are in the way
Catering to bloated oligarchs who want to hoover up wealth and power.
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The Democrats’ progressives need a new story
The one they’re telling is hurting Biden, the party and themselves.
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For Biden, a brighter future, perhaps
There’s a reasonable chance that Biden’s approval rating has bottomed out and can start crawling toward something better.
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When Democratic leaders and white liberals scapegoat the NRA
The convenient fictions constituting our political reality.
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Roe bill fails. What now?
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Manchin and the GOP smear the poor to avoid helping them
Cash payments lift kids out of poverty. To the rightwing, though, that can’t be. The poor are poor, because they deserve their poverty.