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The Democrats’ Last Chance to Save Democracy Expand the Court now. Link Copied Supporters of Donald Trump assaulted the Capitol on January 6, 2021, but American democracy has been under siege for far longer—from both former President Trump and the Republican Party. Trump’s transgressions against democracy are well known: They include having attacked the press as the “enemy of the people,” assailed sitting judges, politicized the Justice Department and the intelligence agencies, undermined transparency in government, encouraged political violence, and delegitimized elections. The Rep...

Before the ink had dried on last week’s COVID-19 relief bill, Biden signaled more was needed and would be among his first priorities. That may prove easier said than done. Biden faces a political landscape essentially flipped and Democrats are in a potentially weaker position than the one Republicans recently occupied. In recent interviews, Biden indicated more was needed for COVID-19 relief. Speaking at a Delaware news conference, Biden said, “Our darkest days in the battle against COVID are ahead of us, not behind us.” Calling the recently passed $908 billion COVID-19 relief measure a...

The COVID relief deal Congress reached over the weekend didn’t come a moment too soon. Actually, it came much too late: Crucial aid to many unemployed Americans and businesses expired months ago. But now some of that aid is back, for a while. True, the aid will be less generous than it was in the spring and summer: $300 a week in enhanced unemployment benefits, rather than $600. But because the workers still out of a job as a result of the pandemic tended to have low earnings even before the coronavirus struck, they will, on average, be receiving something like 85% of their pre-COVID-19 inc...

How important are the Georgia runoff elections for two seats in the U.S. Senate? Well, look at it this way: Unless Democrats win both seats, Joe Biden – assuming, for the sake of argument, he is sworn in as the next president – will become the first Democrat since Grover Cleveland in 1885 to enter the White House without his party controlling both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Why is that important? Because it means that without victories in both races, Biden will not be able to move his legislative agenda through the Congress without at least some measure of GOP ...

Paul Krugman: The ghost of sabotage future When a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans try to sabotage the economy. (Klaas Verplancke | The New York Times) Crucial aid to many unemployed Americans and businesses expired months ago," writes New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. "But now some of that aid is back, for a while." By Paul Krugman | The New York Times   | Dec. 22, 2020, 7:14 p.m. The not-a-stimulus deal Congress reached over the weekend — seriously, this is about disaster relief, not boosting the economy — didn’t come a moment too soon. Actually, it came much too la...