Pop culture serves up a timely yuletide lesson about the inescapable connection between poverty and suicide. We need to start heeding it all year round.

While the current wave of discriminatory policies will do obvious harm to the transgender community, they’re also meant to distract from the myriad ways we’re all getting fleeced.

The president’s domestic record wasn’t just extraordinary. It might put Democrats back in power in four years.

On money matters, I once supported the president-elect with full throat. I now see how his ideas could take down our nation.

Corporate tax cuts! Threatening Republicans! Arresting Democrats! Rethinking the polio vaccine?! People are about to find out what they voted for.

We won’t be talking student loan relief once Trump takes office. We’ll be talking about the abolition of the Department of Education.

One of Trump’s central campaign claims was that green energy and immigration pose a massive threat to American workers. But now it seems local Republicans think otherwise.

Claudia Sheinbaum’s response to Trump’s threat of tariffs revealed truths that the president-elect doesn’t want Americans to know.

A card-carrying member of the economic “precariat” argues that much of what passes for Democratic politics goes right past voters like him.

A renewed zeal for regulatory reform among Democrats shouldn’t tear down the infrastructure that keeps us safe, but it should eliminate all the obstacles that make it annoying to access.

The world’s richest man is poised to go after the country’s most impoverished citizens under the false pretense of cracking down on fraud.

He wants someone who’ll sell Wall Street on across-the-board tariffs. That person doesn’t exist.

Sanders’s time as a presidential candidate has passed, but his ideas are still valuable for a party that needs to persuade voters to return home from MAGA.

No working-class majority, no presidential victory. When will Democrats understand this?

The former president weighs resurrecting Andrew Puzder for labor secretary, a scandal-ridden nominee who had to withdraw the last time he tried to join the Republican’s administration.

Harris has been dinged for not focusing enough on the economy. Her swing-state advertising says dramatically otherwise—and the media largely missed it.

The members of the billionaire executive class have billed themselves as great men of history beyond scrutiny and reproach. This is the year that shattered the illusion.

He caught hell at the time for mismanaging Covid. But now we indulge Trump’s fantasy that his presidency ended in February 2020.

Donald Trump has pledged to remove all undocumented immigrants from the U.S.—but such a policy could have a slew of unintended consequences.

If Walt Whitman helped take American poetry to new heights, the former president’s free-verse stylings have brought it back down to earth.