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Yesterday, Joe Biden announced a plan to write off $10,000 in student loans for most people who haven't paid off their student loans -- and $20,000 in student loans for people who received Pell Grants. Biden's plan will increase inflation, inequality, tuition, and the national debt.

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Right wasted no time touting bogus story about Kamala Harris book Republicans appear to be having so much difficulty undermining Biden and his team that theyre leaning on manufactured nonsense. BySteve Benen The trouble started on Friday with a report in a conservative daily newspaper. The New York Post told readers, "Unaccompanied migrant kids brought from the U.S.-Mexico border to a new shelter in Long Beach, Calif., will be given a copy of [Vice President Kamala Harris] 2019 childrens book,...

New York Will Lose Seat in Congress Because 89 People Didn’t Fill Out the Census Intelligencer 1 hr ago Ed Kilgore © Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag Shifting foundations for the House. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag The long-term trend of congressional representation as dictated by the decennial census has for decades been towards the South and West and away from the Northeast and Midwest. That trend continued in the official 2020 Census determina...

The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? There has never been a politician more consistently cynical than Mitch McConnell. He’s the guy who wrote about how moved he was to witness the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965—as a young aide ...

When a post-policy party confronts an energy crisis When Texans lights went out, they needed a governing party controlling the levers of power. Instead they had Republicans with misguided priorities. Icicles hang off the state highway 195 sign on Feb. 18, 2021 in Killeen, Texas.Joe Raedle / Getty Images Feb. 22, 2021, 6:03 PM UTC BySteve Benen To fix a problem, one must acknowledge and understand the problem. Texas, for example, is trying to recover from last weeks crisis in which much of the s...

29 Jan 2021 D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said at a press conference on Thursday that Democrat majority in the House and Senate and Joe Biden in the White House means the stars are aligned to make the District of Columbia the 51st state. “Statehood is really the only way that we can fulfill full American citizenship,” Bowser said. “Having one vote [in the House] out of 435 is certainly better than no votes but having two senators is the only way that we can ensure full representation in the Am...