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This is how financial crises begin – with subtle, incremental regulatory changes that few notice when they occur but which can have calamitous consequences when taken to their logical extreme.
In a newly published paper, “Wall Street’s Six Biggest Bailed-Out Banks: Their RAP Sheets & Their Ongoing Crime Spree,” the non-profit group Better Markets reports $29 trillion spent in total bailout money.
The presidential candidate has three big ideas: universal basic income, Medicare for all, and “human-centered capitalism.” The first one alone would enlarge the economy 12.6% in the first 8 years.
For all its uncertainties, American life has its reassuring traditions: Fall brings football, spring brings baseball, and proposals for universal health insurance bring healthcare industry scare campaigns.
The 37-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is a graduate of Harvard, a Rhodes Scholar, a former Naval Intelligence officer and the first openly gay person to seek a major party’s presidential nomination.
In recent decades, the CRA helped bring $2 trillion in small-business and community-development bank loans to underserved areas. Why is the Trump administration trying to shred it?
Access matters, and unequal access can have onerous consequences for those who can’t afford the fast lane.
Donald Trump has warned that folks will “lose a lot of money” if the House turns blue. History—namely the 2008 financial crisis caused deregulated banks—suggests red is even costlier.
Congressional “deficit hawks” generally abandon their budget-cutting principles when they become inconvenient, but what would happen if they followed through? Hint: It won't be pleasant.
Funny how people so obsessed with “fake news” so easily embrace fake science.
The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
On the eve of the historic November vote, it seems important to ask: What's wrong with men, how did we get here, and can we change this?
As Trump’s campaign grows increasingly bizarre, his team appears to be more tightly controlling his movements and carefully scripting his public appearances to minimize the negative impact his erratic behavior may have on undecided voters in swing states.
Throughout history, fascist governments have had a similar reliance on the use of lies as a weapon to take and retain power.
Former President Donald Trump is now openly fantasizing about deputizing death squads against Americans.
The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
On the eve of the historic November vote, it seems important to ask: What's wrong with men, how did we get here, and can we change this?
As Trump’s campaign grows increasingly bizarre, his team appears to be more tightly controlling his movements and carefully scripting his public appearances to minimize the negative impact his erratic behavior may have on undecided voters in swing states.
Throughout history, fascist governments have had a similar reliance on the use of lies as a weapon to take and retain power.
Former President Donald Trump is now openly fantasizing about deputizing death squads against Americans.
On the eve of the historic November vote, it seems important to ask: What's wrong with men, how did we get here, and can we change this?
Former President Donald Trump is growing increasingly deranged, yet the media is asleep at the wheel.
Former President Donald Trump is now openly fantasizing about deputizing death squads against Americans.
The 2024 Republican ticket’s incitement of violence against Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, is revealing in more ways than one.
What Britain needs now is more politics, not more police.
Right wing organizations, tech bros, alt finance and big oil are all helping to promote a surge in far right politics that are destabilizing the global order, and could end democracies on both sides of the Atlantic.
Former President Donald Trump is now openly fantasizing about deputizing death squads against Americans.
Throughout history, fascist governments have had a similar reliance on the use of lies as a weapon to take and retain power.
The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
The star-studded summer blockbuster has been lauded as a feminist film. But Barbie is not just pro-women—it’s also very pro-men.
"POTUS" is an acronym political journalists frequently use when talking about the President of the United States. However, "POTUS" seems a woefully soft and inadequate word to describe the current occupant of the Oval Office.
Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell talks about how Americans are welcoming surveillance devices like Ring and Nest into their homes, and — as they can now watch their front doors, babysitters, children and pets all day long — how surveillance has become normalized.