Yet another Trump gutting of a whole swathe of programs, here by eliminating the experts who knew how to determine poverty thresholds.
Read more...Senator Chris Murphy called President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs “a political weapon designed to collapse our democracy.”
Read more...A program that purchased medical debt at a deep discount, while effective, still reinforces a predatory system.
Read more...Trump’s Constitution-trampling has historical predecents. Where might we be headed?
Read more...A new study estimates the cost of payday loans in New York as the state debates tightening rules on these fintechs beyond existing usury laws
Read more...The Trump war against the judiciary reaches a new fevered pitch, with Speaker Johnson threatening Federal court funding.
Read more...How DOGE isn’t just tearing down institutions but also laying the groundwork for an experimental new kind of authoritarian rule.
Read more...Republicans find DOGE’s actions are not universally popular. US courts have begun disallowing cancellation of contracts and terminations
Read more...I hate to put on my cynic’s hat, but I see a weird childlike faith in daddy figures behind the hope the the good daddy, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, will stop the mad bad dad Donald Trump. The other archetypal story line at work is the hero’s journey, with Roberts as the hero, […]
Read more...An update on the hard-fought battle between foreign states trying to regulate social media platforms and the broligarchs.
Read more...A small win for Social Security beneficiaries in the battle against destruction by DOGE.
Read more...Yves here. This post contains informative details on the ongoing row between Judge James Boasberg and the Department of Justice, which defied his order in a deportation of Venezuelans for the planes containing the detainees en route to El Salvador return to the US. The lawlessness of this Administration is stunning. First, as Judge Napolitano, […]
Read more...An estimate of the magnitude of dark-shipped oil suggests that removing sanctions would raise, not lower, oil prices.
Read more...DOGE is up to even more no good than you imagined.
Read more...Western media continue to lie about the reason Romanian courts nullified the country’s November presidential election and are now preventing an anti-NATO candidate from running.
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