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This is a good piece about how Republicans really have zero substantive plan for how to take the economy forward, except to point at how well things were going in

Yaaaaaaaassssssssssssssshttps://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-to-seek-80-billion-to-bolster-irs-tax-enforcement-11619539465 I was planning to write a "fund infrastructure by auditing the fuck out of rich people post," but I'm gla

People like it when you send them money https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-democrats-lost-so-many-south-texas-latinosthe-economy-11604871650 I can’t even The thing is that voters generally have no idea what the president is and is not respo

I'm writing something on this at the moment, but: I think we've reached a point where Pelosi should accept the old $1.6T offer. A deal might help Trump a bit

Huge drop in hiring in this month. Just 661,000 new jobs in September, down from 1.5 million in August. Obviously gonna be the big story of the morning. Could be

Given that we aren’t going to abolish the Senate...probably ever...it feels like the best investment wealthy liberals and the companies they run would be to be move a few hundred

In light of Nate Silver's viral tweet, here's a reminder that the electoral college has created a significant probability of minority rule for its entire history.https://slate.com/business/2019/09/electoral-college-republican-advant

So, I finally got a chance to look at @MattBruenig's piece on the racial wealth gap. It's a useful, but not so much the "real" story, as he'd argue, as

Naive question, but what are the most important concrete asks floating around about police reform. I’m familiar with bail/jail/discovery/decriminalization asks, but less so with how people want to change the

So, let's talk a little bit about Eric Schmidt's $4.7 million donation to NPR. Some will question his motives, since Google has an interest in appeasing the news industry. Some

So, I have an idea for how Biden could actually work with Bernie, make an overture to the left, and focus his campaign more on coronavirus. He should propose an

Here's another sign that the small biz bailout is going badly: Owner have started a hashtag, #EIDLHOAX. SBA was supposed to provide $10k grants as advances on Economic Injury Disaster