The $15 minimum wage is in the news again, this time as part of Joe Biden’s $2 trillion coronavirus relief plan. Of course, Republicans will use the issue as ammunition to attack Democrats in Mitch “Grim Reaper” McConnell’s make-believe war…
In a classic example of Unibrow politics, Sen. Mitt Romney has teamed up with President Joe Biden to “reform” federal welfare programs. Romney’s proposal, known as the Family Security Act (FSA), is really Universal Basic Income in disguise. Biden’s proposal is…
Donald Trump and the Republican Party have always been enemies of the First Amendment, specifically free speech and a free press, which is one reason why they have pushed to give government the power to punish social media and other big…
Now that the election’s over and they no longer need to pretend to be concerned about the budget and reduced spending, Republicans are ready to open the coronavirus spending spigot as they once again prove that there’s no difference between…
In June 2018, his trade war wasn’t going very well so Trump and then–Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin gave us the Foxconn Hustle, a $10 billion scheme that was supposed to result in a 20 million-square-foot factory on outskirts of…
Donald Trump made many promises in 2016 about how he would fix the economy, including a promise to shrink the trade deficit. But according to a new Department of Commerce report, Trump’s ill-advised economic policies and trade wars have caused…
Coronavirus hysteria has brought the U.S. economy to the brink of another Great Recession, but Trump’s economic policies and trade wars had already put it on that path well before the so-called pandemic showed up. One of the topics discussed…
