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Back to SearchDean Baker on Trump’s Tax Plan for the Rich
Why do Republicans only seem to care about deficits and debt when they’re trying to cut social welfare programs? Dan's guest for this special episode…
9 years, 4 months ago
Adam Johnson: All the fake news that’s fit to print
The media has become a part of the story like perhaps never before. Journalist probing has irritated our touchy president. But media outlets have als…
9 years, 4 months ago
Neoliberal vs. Neofascist in France
The Dig normally serves up ice cold, well-digested takes. Sometimes, however, something important happens and Dan finds someone who can help us under…
9 years, 4 months ago
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Black Liberation and Socialism
Putting “black faces in high places,” scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor argues, has not only failed to benefit the working class and poor black majorit…
9 years, 4 months ago
Mass incarceration is everywhere
Prisons don’t just keep inmates in; they keep the public out. Even at a moment when mass incarceration is under unprecedented criticism it is quite h…
9 years, 5 months ago
Is Neoliberalism Over? With Nicole Aschoff
Trump’s oligarchic regime is an extreme version of the imperial and economic vision that has guided presidents of both major parties. But the popular…
9 years, 5 months ago
Matt Bruenig on Why Welfare is Great and Why We Need More
Medicaid expansion saved Obamacare from repeal. There’s a lot to hate about Obamacare, but that expansion did something very good on a very large sca…
9 years, 5 months ago
Corey Robin on the Reactionaries’ Minds Under Trump
What a moment to read, or to re-read, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, Corey Robin’s 2011 collection of essays — …
9 years, 5 months ago
The Democratic Socialists of America and the Fight Against Trump
The Democratic Socialists of America are growing — suddenly and explosively. Last June ahead of the Democratic National Convention, DSA counted 6,500…
9 years, 5 months ago
Dave Weigel: What the media doesn’t get about the left
On the Left, few forms of mainstream journalism are more detested than political reporting. It often substitutes the horse race for substance, dresse…
9 years, 6 months ago