Just had to share this from (or about) His Expediency: First screenshot: 3:12 PM EST today Second screenshot: 5:45 PM EST today See if you can spot the difference. pic.twitter.com/OuxM7sc2cd — Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) January 2, … [Read more...]

The retirement tax is out, but the 20% tax hike and double taxation—taxing taxes—is at the center of the plan. Easy pickin's, enough for the Dems to beat the plan and retake the House at least. The GOP is utterly clueless about this, at … [Read more...]

I mean, if you were Jeff Bezos. I'm not making any predictions (will be surprised, but not flabbergasted, if we get it). But honestly, is there anything more clueless than Boston's bid? Who here would choose to be stuck out on Suffolk … [Read more...]

Now is the right time for progressives to take the lead by filing legislation that would replace the ACA with Medicare. Would it pass the House and Senate and be signed into law? No, but it would reframe the debate and give … [Read more...]

Jobs in wind and solar are both growing like gangbusters and comprise the majority of jobs in the electric-power sector, according to the US Department of Energy (motto: Not Eliminated Yet). If the above chart does not reproduce, … [Read more...]

The mid-term elections will soon be upon us, so it will be a good idea to get our house in order, and work though whatever painful but necessary conflicts sooner rather than later. Of the two ways forward, resumption of incrementalism … [Read more...]

...knocks it out of the ballpark, really: Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media. People are tired of working … [Read more...]