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Take Away the President’s Immunity

Bob Bauer The Atlantic
No legal doctrine should shield anyone—including Donald Trump, if reelected—from prosecution for criminal wrongdoing.

The 1877 Class War That America Forgot

Ryan Zickgraf Jacobin
In 1877, one million workers went on strike and fought police and federal troops in cities across America. The monikers “Great Upheaval” and “Great Railroad Strike” undersell what verged on a second Civil War — this time pitting labor against capital.

Structuring the Economy To Give Money to the Rich Is Inflationary

Dean Baker Center for Economic and Policy Research
Policies that give more money to people at the top are inflationary. If we want to help the working class we have to pursue policies that reverse upward redistribution, not promise the return of manufacturing jobs that no longer offer a wage premium.

The Never-Ending War on the Woke

Alex Pareene The Forum
For my entire life, white moderates have been complaining about how difficult the people on the side of multiracial democracy are making it for them to win their idealized suburban voters.