Celine McNicholas, Margaret Poydock, and Josh Bivens
Economic Policy Institute
While public debate fixates on rising costs, the administration’s most serious harm has come from its policies that hold down wages and weaken workers’ bargaining power.
Events keep demonstrating Donald Trump’s absolutely limitless claims of power to do anything. So nobody should be surprised at the resounding claim that his agents can kill people in cold blood, and they’re immune from any scrutiny.
As a killing in Minneapolis is documented the law clearly stipulates federal agents do not have universal immunity. Federal officers are not, merely because they are such, granted immunity from prosecution in state courts for crimes against state law
One neighborhood in New York has elected so many democratic socialists—including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani—that people have started calling it “the People’s Republic,” or a part of the Commie Corridor.
The administration added new strings for states to receive funding. This could have ripple effects for all households, not just those with low-income children. HHS said it would specifically freeze $10 billion in childcare funds to five blue states.
Sara Roy, interviewed by Max Nelson
The New York Review of Books
“What I sense most powerfully from my friends in Gaza is a feeling of abandonment. Quiet is not the absence of conflict nor is it peace.” Plans for the “day after” in the Strip impose forms of governance that exclude Palestinians as political agents
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