Portside

Democrats want to pay billions to put Americans on expensive corporate health insurance plans rather than expand Medicare or create a public option. It’s a gift to a criminal private insurance industry that needs to be completely abolished.

As we head into the fifth month of the outbreak millions of working families feel like they have been kidnapped and sent to hell.

2019 has seen an outpouring of local and state efforts to stem the tide of mass incarceration, from bail reform and mass bailouts, to efforts to close jails and legislation to divert people from lengthy prison sentences.

Lack of political accountability, after all, is a major reason that American wars are now, to use a recent Pentagon term, “infinite.”

Best leave the mortgage market in government control or abolish Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac entirely and let moral hazard rule.