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How Progressive Era radical Thorstein Veblen helps explain Donald Trump

Sidney Plotkin
The great progressive intellectual saw America trapped between competing impulses, which Trump embodies perfectly

What Trump and Pelosi can learn from a different kind of shutdown that crippled the nation

Thomas Kochan, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
What will it take for the president and speaker to shake hands again?

“View” conservative Meghan McCain makes a concession: “I totally underestimated Nancy Pelosi”

Joseph Neese
"I was wrong," McCain said on the ABC show. "She seems to be the person who can go toe to toe [with] him."

Donald Trump’s approval rating hits historic low as public blames president for government shutdown

Shira Tarlo
Trump's two-year average rating far dwindles the 61 percent average for the former 12 U.S. presidents since 1945

Trump shutdown was “exponential human rights violation” against immigrants and asylum-seekers

Matthew Rozsa
Immigration courts are in chaos after shutdown — Amnesty International expert calls it an "attack" on system

Donald Trump has a strategy: He’s using the border wall fight to escape from justice

Amanda Marcotte
The shutdown battle delayed congressional investigations for weeks. So why wouldn't Trump want to do it again?

Trump turns on Fox News, alleging cable network’s journalists are worse than “Fake News CNN & NBC!”

Shira Tarlo
The president accused two Fox News personalities of being "less understanding" of his long-promised border "wall"

After shutdown defeat, what’s next for Trump? Here’s a rundown of his (limited) options

Matthew Rozsa
Media is rife with speculation about what lies ahead for Trump's presidency after he backed down on the shutdown

President Trump allegedly spends much of his day giving White House tours: “He’s very restless”

Matthew Chapman
“He’d rather roam around and B.S. with people than hunker down," presidential historian Douglas Brinkley says

The single most important pro-labor speech of the shutdown was not given by AOC

Bob Hennelly
The country was convulsed by shutdown finger-wagging and one lone voice called for a general strike. it wasn't AOC

Why Cardi B’s politics matter

Nicole Karlis
Cardi B refuses to be silenced, proving the best way to neutralize right wing trolls is to "dog walk" them

Elizabeth Warren’s “wealth tax” proposal is popular — and Donald Trump had it first

Sophia Tesfaye
Can Elizabeth Warren can sell her bold new plan to tax the rich? Why not? Everybody loves it — except the rich

Why aren’t hedge funds required to fight money laundering?

Heather Vogell
An effort to make big investment funds abide by the same rules that banks and brokerages follow has bogged down

Trump zeroes in on surprise medical bills in White House chat with patients, experts

Emmarie Huetteman
Trump has often railed against high prescription drug prices

Donald Trump caves to Democratic demands by announcing a deal to end his historic shutdown

Shira Tarlo
The shutdown, which entered Friday into its 34th day, became the longest budget impasse in U.S. history

Trump’s EPA has a light touch when it comes to punishing polluters

Nicole Karlis
Over the last two decades, EPA civil penalties averaged more than $500 million. Last year's were just $72 million

The Trump administration wants to tighten SNAP work requirements, bypassing Congress

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow
Fewer people getting SNAP benefits can lead to more skipped meals

Trump’s shutdown causing irreparable long-term damage to national parks, says expert

Matthew Rozsa
Lack of services, maintenance, may have lasting destructive effects on national parks, says reporter Wes Siler

Air traffic controllers, forced to take second jobs, warn of “unprecedented” shutdown risk

Igor Derysh
PIlots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers warn of dire consequences as unpaid workers reach exhaustion

“The View” co-host Meghan McCain tries to pin the blame for Donald Trump’s shutdown on Democrats

Brendan Skwire
Her dogged efforts to blame President Trump’s shutdown on “both sides” gets obliterated by co-host Sunny Hostin

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was the only House Democrat who voted against a bill to end the shutdown

Shira Tarlo
She explained in an Instagram Live video that she did not vote for the bill because it "included ICE funding"

Donald Trump’s SOTU fiasco: Historians say it’s unprecedented

Matthew Rozsa
Historians tell Salon that Trump's State of the Union implosion is completely "without precedent"

Billionaire Wilbur Ross confused by hungry government workers: “I don’t really quite understand”

Shira Tarlo
Trump tried to downplay the shutdown's impact last month by falsely claiming that unpaid workers were "Democrats"

Nancy Pelosi knows how to exploit Trump’s sexism — and she’s totally owning him

Amanda Marcotte
Trump has no idea how to deal with women who aren't there to serve him. Pelosi is working that perfectly
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