Search Results for
February 25, 2025 | The American Prospect
Why Haven't House Democrats Moved to Impeach Scott Bessent?
There’s mounting evidence that Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary is not telling the truth about DOGE’s infiltration of the federal payments system.
February 07, 2025 | The American Prospect
Trump’s Energy Czar Is All In on AI
When Donald Trump nominated North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to be his interior secretary, centrist to right-of-center “abundance agenda” advocates were jubilant. Politico reported, with typically amoral zeal, that Interior would be led by an “overnight rock star in the tech and energy worlds.” Burgum has a foot in both camps, as a former governor from fracking country with deep ties to fossil fuel executives like fracking magnate Harold Hamm, and a venture capitalist invested in software companies who sold his own software company to Microsoft for $1.1 billion in 2001.
January 29, 2025 | The American Prospect
The Texas Model
Trump’s inner circle is stacked with corporate lackeys, far-right influencers, and as Public Citizen described it, “Self-Enriching Grifters.” Many of them, though (somewhat) new to the national political spotlight, are all too familiar to observers of one state: Texas.
January 09, 2025 | The American Prospect
Trump’s Attack on Government Capacity Will Fan the Flames of the Home Insurance Crisis
The U.S. Forest Service is already underfunded and understaffed. Slashing its resources further is likely to unleash more severe wildfires.
December 24, 2024 | The American Prospect
We Already Run the Post Office Like a Business
The U.S. Postal Service loses money because of stifling rules and a mandate to serve the entire country. Privatization would only raise costs and reduce service.
December 23, 2024 | The American Prospect
The VA's Self-Made Dialysis Disaster
Former Representative Doug Collins is Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a federal agency that oversees the administration of health care to over 9.1 million veterans. Collins, notably, is a veteran himself, but has seemingly little background on veterans issues. His early pronouncements are superficially bland, promising to “root out corruption, and ensure every veteran receives the benefits they’ve earned,” among other things.
December 18, 2024 | Rolling Stone
Biden Must Free the Man Who Exposed Trump’s Tax Avoidance
Joe Biden must commute the sentence of Charles Littlejohn, the IRS whistleblower who leaked Donald Trump’s tax records, before Trump can get revenge.
December 18, 2024 | Slate
Meet the Terrifying Line of Shock Troops Likely to Make Up the New Trump DOJ
Donald Trump’s first Department of Justice was a bastion of legal and ethical impropriety led by figures seeking to fundamentally collapse the rule of law. His attorneys general sought to gut civil rights, dehumanize immigrants, further militarize the border, and undermine the basic tenets of American democracy.
December 18, 2024 | The American Prospect
Democrats Allow More IRS Funding to Fade Away
Concessions from the 2023 debt ceiling fight continue to haunt Democrats, and tax cheats could enjoy hundreds of billions in savings.
November 26, 2024 | The American Prospect
The Abundance Agenda: Neoliberalism’s Rebrand
The new centrist push to regain control of the Democratic Party, with corporate money
November 18, 2024 | The American Prospect
The Department of Government Efficiency Is Inefficient
DOGE is a new weapon in Trump’s ongoing war against the administrative state. But it’s important to remain clear-eyed about the value federal civil servants provide. These individuals help ensure the safety of our food, medicine, transportation, air, and water. They are also the backbone of our education, health care, and financial regulatory systems. There is no doubt that many Americans feel burned by their recent interactions with these systems, but federal employees are the wrong targets of their ire.
November 05, 2024 | The Sling
The Federal Reserve Isn’t Responsible for the Soft Landing—Though to Understand Why, We Need More Than Econ 101
Particularly given the stink that neoclassical economists made about evidence for sellers’ inflation, they should be held to a similar standard for their crediting of the Fed for lower inflation and implicitly putting the blame on consumers and workers. The data just don’t fit their model.
November 04, 2024 | The American Prospect
The Climate Crisis Is a Cost-of-Living Crisis
The right’s climate denial means higher prices.
October 11, 2024 | The New Republic
What Harris Needs to Say About Hurricanes
Kamala Harris should speak plainly about climate change—and then talk about the many things she could do as president to fix the home insurance crisis.
October 10, 2024 | The Hill
Harris should promise to elevate FEMA head to Cabinet
The FEMA director has been elevated to a cabinet-level post once before: under President Clinton in 1996. Even that relatively small step could make a huge difference.