U.S. Deficit Set to Top $1 Trillion Next Year

KEVIN FREKING / The Associated Press Aug 21, 2019 The return of trillion-dollar annual deficits comes despite Donald Trump's vow when running for office that he would pay down the national debt. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Donald Trump’s Meaner America

By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org May 28, 2017 Licensed by the new president, Americans now say and do things to people they disagree with that previously were unthinkable. Take Greg Gianforte as an example. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Minimum Truth: The Hollow Argument Against Higher Wages

Joe Conason / Truthdig Feb 24, 2014 In the midst of a crucial political debate that plainly favored proponents of a higher minimum wage, the Congressional Budget Office dropped a bombshell headline last week. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Obamacare Job Killers

Mark Fiore / Truthdig Feb 13, 2014 Meet the sociopaths out to destroy America's unwanted jobs. Dig deeper

Must the Obamacare Debate Be Stupid?

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Feb 6, 2014 By broadening access to health insurance, the Affordable Care Act ends the tyranny of "job lock," which is what the much-misrepresented Congressional Budget Office study of the law released on Tuesday shows. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

CBO: Obamacare Will Thin Full-Time Workforce by 2 Million

Staff / Truthdig Feb 5, 2014 The Congressional Budget Office offered more fodder Tuesday for opponents of Obamacare to hate on the Affordable Care Act -- should they choose to spin the facts and figures. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Oct. 17: The Day the Money Runs Out

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Sep 26, 2013 Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has written House Speaker John Boehner to warn that unless Congress raises the debt limit, the United States of America is going to start bouncing checks. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Budget Report Proves Krugman Right, Coulter Says ‘Screw You’ to Obama, and More

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Feb 6, 2013 A look at the day's political happenings, including a Republican flip-flop on immigration reform and Chris Christie pokes fun at himself on "The Late Show with David Letterman." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Fiscal Cliff Deal Would Add Trillions to Deficit

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jan 2, 2013 Instead of deficit reduction, it appears the fiscal cliff deal that was passed in the Senate early Tuesday morning would only add to the federal government's budget problems. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Ryan’s Budget Figures Don’t Add Up

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 17, 2012 Certain media pundits' hearts are aflutter over how honest, intellectual and responsible GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan supposedly is. But not economics professor Bill Black, who shows that Ryan's "Tinker Bell" budget proposal uses numbers that have nothing to do with the economy to achieve fiscal balance in the next few decades. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Dubya’s Presidential Tab, Jon Stewart on Political Gaffes and More

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jun 12, 2012 A look at the day's political happenings, including Arizona's special election, the fiscal damage done by George W. Bush's presidency and the latest on the controversial Florida voter purge. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Have and Have-Not Nation

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Oct 28, 2011 The hard-right conservatives who dominate the Republican Party claim to despise the redistribution of wealth, but secretly they love it -- as long as the process involves depriving the poor and middle class to benefit the rich, not the other way around. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )