Goodbye Paris Agreement! Can Kamala Harris live up to the hype? Concentrated markets and a lack of competition are damaging the Australian economy Wage growth isn’t so sluggish after all Leaked regulation: Trump plans to roll back Obamacare birth control mandate To save the welfare state, liberals need a new narrative about personal responsibility
$40-80 carbon tax by 2020, $100 carbon tax by 2030 could save climate, say economists Illinois passes automatic voter registration Here’s what happens when you defund Planned Parenthood Why Trump’s plan to slash food stamps and Medicaid could cost him crucial support Why Whole Foods represents the failures of ‘conscious capitalism’ Trump’s budget plan lands with a thud in Middle America
Wages go up and Goldman Sachs says “oh no” Democrats just united on a $15-an-hour minimum wage How the American Health Care Act would affect mental-health coverage US economy grows at tepid rate of 1.2 percent Liberals won’t get anywhere fact-checking Donald Trump, because they have no powerful message of their own Why Republicans can’t fix health insurance
Economists say Trump’s budget proposal doesn’t add up Thomas Friedman takes a road trip through “rusting and rising America” The big divide in America is not between the coasts and the interior. It’s between strong communities and weak communities. You can find weak ones along the coast and thriving ones in Appalachia, and vice versa. It’s community, stupid — not geography. The communities that are making it share a key attribute: They’ve created diverse adaptive coalitions, where local businesses get deeply involved in the school system, translating in real time the skills being demanded by the global economy. They also tap local colleges for talent and innovations that can diversify their economies and nurture unique local assets that won’t go away. Local foundations and civic groups step in to fund supplemental learning opportunities and internships, and local governments help to catalyze it all. The dumb accounting error at the heart of Trump’s budget The U.S. wins the G7 unemployment-improvement race Voters in Washington hated both Trump and Clinton more than in any other state
Chinese student abused for praising ‘fresh air of free speech’ in US Trump’s budget: major slashes to social programs—but $1.6bn for the wall David Brooks continues to think that families and communities are falling apart——after he just left his wife for another woman ISIS claims responsibility for Manchester attack; toll rises to 22, including children Why tax cuts don’t pay for themselves DeVos promises ‘the most ambitious expansion of education choice in our nation’s history’ but offers no details April new home sales fall 11.4% to 569,000, vs. 615,000 expected
After Piketty—video and transcript of panel including Paul Krugman Bernie Sanders raises the stakes in tight Montana race Trump’s budget is a joke Medicaid cuts coming in Trump’s budget How Can Democrats Form an Agenda When Trump Looms Over Everything? Monopoly in Australia: what can we learn from the land down under? The decline of established American retailing threatens jobs
In the US, voting is way harder for poor people Humans aren’t built to be in the moment Americans are paying $38 to gather $1 of student debt The share of student debt that’s severely delinquent (at least 90 days late) is more than triple the overall serious delinquency rate on all household debt, according to the New York Fed. It’s time for the government to give everyone a job Delusional and patriarchal American headline of the day: Trump can remake the Middle East China is the future of the sharing economy The Trump administration’s plans to crack down on Wall Street are being called into question
The words “gridlock” and “politicians” have seemingly been grafted together over the last twenty years. This is a rare, bipartisan complaint among voters: “those bums in [insert ‘Washington DC’ or the state capitol of your choice here] can never get anything done.” No matter the topic—revenue, infrastructure, education—people love to grumble about the supposed unyielding stalemate of their elected leaders. Gun violence has particularly frustrated us. As wave after wave of highly publicized mass shootings swept across the nation, Americans responded to political inaction with anger, and then disgust, and finally hopelessness. By the time the Sandy Hook massacre happened, most Americans felt as though their leaders weren’t leading, and with the national Republican Party under the sway of the National Rifle Association, it seemed unlikely that anything would ever change. But if you’re paying attention, you’ll find clear signs of hope all around us. Though we usually recall political change arriving in moments of great, sweeping victory, the truth is that norms and laws change over time, through immense amounts of planning and work. Everyone remembers the day that the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal across the United States. It was such a dramatic, cathartic moment that it’s easy to forget the years of work volunteered by the millions of people who made that moment possible. It’s happening again. Slowly and steadily, Washington state is transforming the debate on gun responsibility. If you look back over the years since Sandy Hook, you’ll notice a clear and deliberate course of action against gun violence and toward commonsense gun laws that make life in the state better for everyone. Like any great political movement, this story begins with the people. In November of 2014, the voters of Washington state overwhelmingly approved Initiative 594 , a measure that required background checks for every
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US jobless claims fall New applications for U.S. jobless benefits unexpectedly fell last week and the number of Americans on unemployment rolls tumbled to a 28-1/2-year low, pointing to rapidly shrinking labor market slack. Trump to propose scrapping beleaguered student loan forgiveness program Household debt in USA surpasses its peak reached during the recession in 2008 The best replacement for Obamacare is Medicaid The poor die younger The investigator America needs Even before the stunning events of the past week, Mr. Mueller would have had plenty to work with. But after the president’s abrupt firing of Mr. Comey on May 9 — followed by his apparent admission that he did so with the Russia investigation in mind, followed by reports that he previously pressed Mr. Comey to pledge his loyalty and asked him to drop a related inquiry into Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser — it became clear that the investigation needed to be kept alive at all costs, and as far from Mr. Trump as possible.
Trump is above the law, for now–but not the people More Republicans back independent probe Welcome to the ‘War On Drugs,’ Redux The broken promise of higher education That millions of students have dropped out of college, often unable to pay back their student loans, is more than just a college-completion crisis. It is also an upending of the promise of higher education: to students, that they can educate their way into economic stability, and to citizens, that higher education will spur economic growth and a stronger nation. Instead, voters see students left to go it alone, navigating an unfamiliar and challenging world while forgoing a paycheck, taking on thousands in debt to cover the costs, and often moving back in with their parents to survive. Hannity and Fox News are in full meltdown over Trump’s Comey scandal No more holding that phone while driving under new law in Washington Seattle could be first city to give heroin users ‘safe spaces’
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