Middle class

Trump began the work of redirecting the GOP by building a working-class coalition, Hawley argues. In his view, Trump’s bombastic style and penchant for chaos bear no consequence for the new brand of conservatism Hawley envisions; affairs…

The Neurath power plant owned by RWE. (AP / Christoph Hardt, Geisler-Fotopres) The details of the Green New Deal have yet to be fleshed out, but its central aim is crystal clear: to usher in the clean-energy…

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Len Nichols, a health economist at George Mason, also worries that cuts to providers as large as the ones Warren envisions would seriously disrupt the system.“You can do this mathematically. The question is: Can you do it in real life…

« ARGUMENT OF THE DAY »Remember the corporate-tax cuts from President Trump’s signature legislative achievement?Our economics writer Derek Thompson looks back at the promises of those tax cuts—they didn’t work at all, he argues: …

Read: The question Elizabeth Warren doesn’t want to answerTo pay for Medicare for All, Warren would impose an additional 6 percent tax on assets above $1 billion, plus she’d add a tax on financial transactions and raise capital-gains…

“The Republicans would have you believe that if you grow a middle class, it’ll hurt your economy, that if you believe in the power of immigration to be a positive thing in America rather than a negative thing, you’ll have a bad economy,”…

Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren speaks at an organizing event in Las Vegas on February 17, 2019. (AP Photo / John Locher) EDITOR’S NOTE:&nbspEach week we cross-post an excerpt from Katrina vanden…

A worker picks up trash on the National Mall near the Capitol building in January, 2019. (Reuters / Jim Young) EDITOR’S NOTE:&nbspEach week we cross-post an excerpt from Katrina vanden Heuvel’s column at…

William vanden Heuvel (center right), alongside other state and NAACP officials, announces the opening of Virginia’s Prince Edward County Free Schools in 1963. (AP / Richmond News Leader) EDITOR’S…