Ron Johnson, genius, tells Wisconsinites they don't need any more good, high-paying jobs

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, who probably shouldn’t be waiting by the phone for MENSA to call, just told his constituents in Wisconsin that he won’t fight for high-paying jobs for them because, “It’s …

'Real patriots don’t root for failure': Fox News giddily predicted huge losses ahead of jobs report

At this point, do we need more evidence that Fox News is always off? Pun intended. It should be turned off.

Fox News has made headlines again, of course, for the worst reason. Moments before Joe …

Fox News can no longer deny it: Joe Biden is the most successful president since St. Reagan himself

Sean Hannity and the other Fox News hosts can no longer deny it: Joe Biden is the greatest president in recent American history. Under Biden’s leadership, the U.S. economy grew by a massive 5.7% …

Borough council in Pennsylvania becomes first in state to revoke LGBTQ protections

As we’re being reminded during our ongoing battle to preserve and protect abortion rights here in the United States, simply making progress doesn’t mean achievements will be maintained or built upon …

Despite major loss on voting rights, Biden has accomplished a ton in his first year in office

As we lick our wounds following the devastating failure of two historic voting rights bills in the Senate, let’s try to look to the accomplishments of President Joe Biden’s first year in office and …

COVID-19 is still with us, but it's fading as a chief concern for Americans in 2022

New polling from AP-NORC finds the economy is far outpacing COVID-19 as the chief concern for voters heading into this year’s midterms.

Fully 68% of Americans named the economy as a problem they …

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The gulf between the top 1% and everyone else kept on growing in 2020

Wages rose in 2020 … for people who already made a lot of money. That continues a decades-long trend of rising inequality in which, from 1979 to 2020, wages for the top 1% grew by 179.3%, wages for …

The U.S. economy is beating the world, thanks to Joe Biden, but you wouldn't know it from the media

The U.S. economy is expanding at a 7% rate over the last three months, up by 5% from the beginning of the year. That number isn’t just three times the expected growth rate in Europe, it almost doubles …

Biden gets to claim a victory after supply chain crisis quietly evaporates

In October, the accelerating U.S. economy ran up against corporate supply chain problems as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic shredded “just-in-time” manufacturing pipelines. Closed factories, …

Biden's universal preschool plan could boost the economy by helping moms go back to work

Public school options start at age five for most kids, with kindergarten. President Joe Biden wants to change that by including universal preschool in his Build Back Better plan. The Build Back Better …

Confirmed: The media is setting a gloom-and-doom tone on the economy

The United States, along with much of the rest of the world, has been through rocky economic times thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re traumatized and uncertain about the future and not sure where …

Fox News does a ‘Santa Shortage’ segment and it is truly bizarre

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! When ding-dongs (ding-dong!) over in the right-wing-o-sphere tell you how the war on Christmas is going. Spoiler alert: It has been going terribly for white …

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Systemic inequality is leaving trillions on the table

Many of us will take a moment over Thanksgiving to give thanks for our good fortune, however small or great. My sincere hope for those who read this is that the words of the women I interviewed, when …

Biden has delivered a wealth of accomplishments in one year, but voters don't seem to know it

Over the last several months, we have been dedicating some time and energy in the Daily Kos/Civiqs survey to trying to figure out why President Joe Biden’s approval ratings are nearly 10 points …

Why is Joe Biden smiling? History is on his side

Presidents are kind of like NFL quarterbacks: They get too much credit when their team wins and too much blame when they lose. Rightly or wrongly, U.S. presidents tend to be the face of whatever’s …

Shelves aren't empty, oil prices are heading down, but Republicans are locked into a disaster story

On Tuesday morning, President Joe Biden announced that he would be making available 50 million barrels of oil from the national Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The release is designed to ease a perceived …

'A gold mine for us': Republicans root for economic calamity for the American people

As American families confront higher prices for everyday needs, Republicans celebrate their economic calamity and root for more to come.

With eyes aglow, Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, Senate …

Two things are true: Inflation is real, and the media is hyping it and ignoring better economic news

Retail sales rose in October for a third month in a row. October saw strong jobs growth, and Goldman Sachs is predicting a significant drop in the unemployment rate over the next year. Most families …