The New York Times features a new economic risk calculator that tells me my white, educated family has only an 8.4% chance of falling into poverty over…
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Bernie Sanders gets a teeny-tiny youth-vote boost in Ohio today, thanks to a court ruling allowing 17-year-olds to vote. An Ohio judge ruled last Friday that young voters…
Unlike most Republicans, Donald Trump is a fascist. But like most Republicans running for President, Donald Trump is a fantasist on fiscal policy, peddling the same…
Republicans tell us that social programs like Medicaid (which Governor Daugaard has cleverly delayed expanding for another Session) and food stamps only discourage people from working. Via…
Now we know why Senator Mike Rounds won’t condemn billionaire Klan-fave Donald Trump: it turns out Trump is trying to cash in on one of Mike Rounds’s…
A Catholic South Dakota Democrat and a Mormon Utah Republican, and a British comedian all come to the same conclusion: Donald Trump is a fraud. John…
One of the numerous goals of the Affordable Care Act was to reduce costly and stressful hospital readmissions—in other words, to get more hospitals to…
A little like me, Senator Bernie Sanders stands outside America’s Christian mainstream. Sanders is Jewish; I am an atheist (although I’ve been told occasionally that I look like a rabbi). Like me, Senator…
So when does Hillary Clinton deliver on her star power? When does she show the Democratic Party that she is as awesome a candidate as her…