Rachel “The Doc” Bitecofer on Twitter: @RachelBitecofer Rachel Bitecofer’s work can be found at the Judy Ford Wason Center for Public Policy. Rachel Bitecofer’s 2020 forecast can be found here: With 16 Months to go, Negative Partisanship Predicts the 2020 Presidential Election Have a look at Rachel Bitecofer’s evening on Election Night 2018: Jordan Zakarin on Twitter: @JordanZakarin Progressives Everywhere […]

Even a Judge and a Republican cannot help be disgusted by DeVos’ passion for loading up Americans with unpayable debt Last Thursday should be remembered as the day the news caught up with the remorseless wretchedness of Betsy DeVos. We can now say with certainty that Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education is illegally ripping off Americans who’ve already been illegally […]

Massive payoffs for the wealthy. Massive risks for everyone else. Hell for the most vulnerable. That’s the plan. Given the unrelenting string of horrors and high crimes coming out of the White House, you can be excused for missing two of the biggest stories of the year, with life-or-death consequences that could last the rest of our lives. As you […]

Republicans are trying to overturn the results of the 2018 election Because Republicans lost the House of Representatives in 2018, they are no longer in the majority and, because of this, Democrats control the impeachment process that is now underway. To hear Republicans and Fox News tell it, they are engaged in an unconstitutional process (that is actually IN the […]

Earlier this month, Ukrainian “businessmen” Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were arrested at Dulles International Airport. They were apprehended as they were attempting to leave the country on one-way tickets on a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Frankfurt after having lunch with Rudy Giuliani. The two were indicted on campaign finance crimes: The indictment of the two men, Lev Parnas and […]

Figure out who paid for the wall and who pays for tax cuts for the rich and then get back to us The press — and a few of her opponents — think they have Elizabeth Warren cornered. She refuses to buy into their urge to get a soundbite that plays into a right-wing narrative that reducing people’s health care […]

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Over the past year, a coalition of University of Michigan students, faculty, and allies have formed a coalition called One University to push the university to more fully and equitably fund and support the students at their Flint and Dearborn campuses. Students at these campuses pay 80% of the tuition fees that their counterparts in Ann Arbor pay yet they […]

Gabriel Zucman on Twitter: @Gabriel_Zucman Buy The Triumph of Injustice – How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay HERE. Christopher Ingraham at The Washington Post: For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class last year https://t.co/v6LPTxDRce is now LIVE! 🥳 It's an open-source & user-friendly simulator allowing […]

The biggest mistake we can make is forgetting what Trump is good at Despite his relentless efforts to screw anyone who isn’t a billionaire and betray the nation in general, Donald Trump’s appeal to his shrinking party remains durable and inexplicable to many rational minds. Still, you can’t help but wonder where it comes from and how to undermine it […]