Opinion · 117th Congress
Recession or no recession: Who’s a voter to believe?
</p> So, who are you going to believe? </p> Not Janet Yellen, who claimed on ABC’s “This Week” that “it’s a medium-term matter.
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Opinion · 117th Congress
Egad! It’s a guide to the 2022 midterms
</p> There was a time when I optimistically believed that 2022 would be a victory-over-COVID-19 election.
Opinion · 117th Congress
When will Congress call domestic terrorism by its name?
</p> Would they be able to do that?</p> “Ask yourself,” he said, “is there nothing we can do?”</p> The track record isn’t great.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Biden talks inflation: Another swing and a miss
</p> In March, McConnell said, “We will not have as part of our agenda a bill that raises taxes on half the American people and sunsets Social Security and Medicare within five years.”
Opinion · 117th Congress
The worst pandemic in a century has outlasted our attention span
</p> Of course, in theory, unicorns might also be grazing on the Capitol grounds.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Will Biden’s 2022 midterms be worse than Obama’s in 2010?
Obama prioritized passage of the controversial health care bill over dealing with unemployment, believing it would keep women in the Democratic camp. He was wrong.
Opinion · 117th Congress
But what will the ‘optics’ be?
</p> The symbolism speaks for itself and points to a larger problem.
Opinion · 117th Congress
The era of laissez-faire COVID-19 prevention
In early March, a $15.6 billion funding package for pandemic relief got dropped from the overall $1.5 trillion federal spending bill to fund the government.
Opinion · 117th Congress
The sad but true limits of American power
The late-night stopover in Kyiv in January 1994 was a last-minute addition to Bill Clinton’s itinerary for his first European trip as president.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Klobuchar’s tech bill will impact consumers
</p> The makers of tech products from Amazon to Apple to Google have all raised concerns that the bill would dramatically change consumer-favorite products.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Black women are Americans, and representation raises the bar — legal and otherwise
</p> Nearly a century later, in Korematsu v.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Midterm voters have a way of reminding presidents what to focus on
</p> In 2009, with the economy in dire straits, Obama kicked off his presidency with a nod to the No. 1 issue in the 2008 election, the economy, by passing a $792 billion stimulus bill in February 2009
Opinion · 117th Congress
Congress must call Amazon’s bluff on antitrust
</p> It doesn’t take much to see through such transparently hollow claims.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Biden’s economic message needs a reality check
</p> In March and April 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic exploded, the country lost more than 22 million jobs.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Democrats’ early panic over gerrymandering could prove costly in November
</p> Biden’s only major legislative victory in months came in early November when the House finally acceded to the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Jan. 6, 2021, the ‘New Right’ and a republic at risk
</p> My first few days working for Free Congress were not promising.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Democrats have few answers on ending losing streak after Manchin’s reconciliation dagger
</p> But good?