Analysis
Virginia primary sets stage for confrontations in November
June 14, 2018The question now is whether, in the November federal midterm election, the Democratic voter turnout will work the same charm it did with the state elections last year.
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Employment numbers and criminal regimes
June 13, 2018It's astonishing, and would confuse classical liberal economists like Adam Smith and David Ricardo, that low unemployment coincides with so little growth in wages.
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GOP tax law weakens Social Security and Medicare
June 7, 2018“Sixty-six percent of voters are more likely to back candidates who support expanding and increasing Social Security benefits, compared to only 18 percent who are less likely.”
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Roseanne failed to capture spirit of the U.S. working class
June 6, 2018The portrayal of white working-class families as having no political consciousness is played out and lazy.
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We can change an unjust immigration policy
June 6, 2018If you think this isn't possible, remember that a decade after Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, the U.S. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act.
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