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Unions or Abundance? That’s a False Choice.

This week, Ezra Klein invited on his podcast his Abundance co-author, Derek Thompson, and Marc Dunkelman, the scholar and author of Why Nothing...

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New Republic

Monica Potts

The Populist Message That’s Resonating in Key Battleground States

President Donald Trump’s poor economic performance is costing him with Sun Belt voters, giving Democrats an opening to win them over ahead of the...

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Monica Potts

The Third Party That’s Pushing the Democrats Left

Most Americans, even many Republican voters, disapprove of the war in Iran and remain unhappy about the high cost of everything from gas to groceries,...

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Trump’s Chaos Economy Could Trigger a Debt Crisis

Lending Tree, an online lender, reported last week that nearly half of U.S. households that used “buy now, pay later”—loans offered at online...

22.04.2026 3

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Monica Potts

Trump Is Quietly Showing His True Feelings About Gig Workers

On Monday, in the vain hope that Americans might forget about his economically disastrous war against Iran, President Trump attempted a symbiotic...

17.04.2026 6

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Monica Potts

The Real Reason Republicans Want to Privatize the TSA

President Donald Trump and the conservative think tanks that inspire his policies want to privatize the Transportation Security Administration...

15.04.2026 3

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Monica Potts

Five Ways Trump’s Proposed Budget Hurts the Working Class

President Donald Trump’s 2027 budget proposal, sent to Congress on Friday, doubles down on MAGA pet projects while taking a sledgehammer to a number...

08.04.2026 5

New Republic

Monica Potts

Can America Handle a $30 Minimum Wage?

In 2012, in what The New York Times called “the biggest wave of job actions in the history of America’s fast-food industry,” workers in New York...

31.03.2026 4

New Republic

Monica Potts

A Simple Way to Make Housing Cheaper Is Languishing in the GOP House

The House of Representatives is sitting on bipartisan legislation sent to it by the Senate that could potentially help solve the housing affordability...

25.03.2026 10

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Monica Potts

Zohran Mamdani and the Rise of the Renter Politicians

In 2019, Aparna Raj was living with five friends in a group house in Washington, D.C., that had no shortage of problems. Half the house lost...

12.03.2026 6

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Monica Potts

The Battle to Enact a Billionaire’s Tax In California

When the Los Angeles chapter of 50501, one of the loosely organized groups behind the No Kings marches against President Trump over the past year,...

09.03.2026 30

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Monica Potts

Ruben Gallego Wants You to Get Paid More for Working on Holidays

This past Christmas, Yuliia Moshkova had to hurry to open presents with her family before her work shift started at 8 a.m. She works from her home in...

13.02.2026 20

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How Companies Profit by Annoying the Hell Out of You

10.02.2026 9

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Unions Can Win in the South

07.02.2026 10

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The Unusual Working-Class Message That Turned a Deep-Red District Blue

04.02.2026 30

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Trump’s War on Higher Ed Is an Attack on Women

03.02.2026 10

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Democrats Should Take Control on Immigration

02.02.2026 7

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How Minneapolis Is Making Social Media More Political

29.01.2026 10

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What Taylor Swift Can Teach Us About Economics

27.01.2026 6

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Is Universal Childcare the Democrats’ Winning Issue This Year?

23.01.2026 10

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Trump Still Only Has “Concepts of a Plan” for Health Care Reform

17.01.2026 10

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Republicans Have Found Another Insidious Way to Cut SNAP

31.12.2025 30

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Monica Potts

Who Is JD Vance? (No, Seriously. Who Is He?)

25.12.2025 40

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A New Report Reveals the Real Reason Democrats Lost in 2024

11.12.2025 20

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What Does It Mean to Be in an “Affordability Crisis”?

10.12.2025 10

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How Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear Thinks Democrats Can Win Rural America

06.12.2025 10

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Monica Potts

Why Republicans in Congress Hate Trump’s Health Care Plan

26.11.2025 10

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Monica Potts

The Next Foreclosure Crisis Has Arrived

18.11.2025 10

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Remember the Republicans’ Rural Health Fund? It’s a Joke.

12.11.2025 10

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Where Would We Be If Joe Lieberman Hadn’t Killed the Public Option?

03.11.2025 20

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She’s Never Run for Office Before. She Could Be Seattle’s Next Mayor.

31.10.2025 10

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The Trump Economy Is Here, and It’s So Much Worse Than Biden’s

17.10.2025 10

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The Trump Administration Is Rushing to Implement SNAP Cuts

09.10.2025 30

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Here’s One Reason Democrats Are Struggling With the Working Class

07.10.2025 20

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The Shutdown Is Bad. The End of the Obamacare Subsidies Is Worse.

02.10.2025 10

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Most Workers Won’t Be as Lucky as Jimmy Kimmel

25.09.2025 10

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Why Won’t Farmers Rebel Against Trumponomics? Because They’re Rich.

24.09.2025 10

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Democrats Look for a New Villain: The Groups or the Billionaires

22.09.2025 10

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Public Housing Again, Really? Yes, Really.

21.09.2025 20

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Trump Is Making It Harder for Women to Work in Construction

17.09.2025 10

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Income Inequality Is Going in the Wrong Direction Again

10.09.2025 20

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The Democrats’ Self-Destructive Fear of the Swing Voter

27.08.2025 20

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Mothers Are Fleeing the Workforce—and That’s Just What Trump Wants

25.08.2025 10

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Trump’s Takeover of D.C. Is Not a Distraction. It’s the Whole Point.

20.08.2025 10

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How Red-State Republicans Thwart the Left-Wing Desires of Their Voters

18.08.2025 10

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Cash Payments Were Never Meant to Be a Cure-All for Poor Americans

15.08.2025 10

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The Left-Wing Policy That AI Evangelists Suddenly Love

02.07.2025 10

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Monica Potts

Labor Unions Are a Driver of Abundance, Not an Obstacle

25.06.2025 10

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Monica Potts

The Republican Budget Bill Rips College Away From the Working Class

23.05.2025 10

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The Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts Could Cause a Rural Unemployment Crisis

21.05.2025 10

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