Saturday, January 25, 2025
■ The Week in Review
"Chairman Ferguson could have done any number of things to actually lower the cost of living and create opportunities for American businesses and workers," said one Democratic FTC commissioner. "He did none of them."
By Jake Johnson • Jan 24, 2025
"As usual, President Trump appears more concerned with buoying business interests than reforming our broken system to deliver safe, affordable food," one advocate said.
By Olivia Rosane • Jan 23, 2025
The Massachusetts Democrat has proposals on healthcare programs, Pentagon contracts, tax reform, and more.
By Jessica Corbett • Jan 23, 2025
"This bill is the very definition of pernicious: It attacks women's healthcare using false narratives and outright fearmongering," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
By Jessica Corbett • Jan 22, 2025
"Officials in sane and scientific states must band together to report data on their own," said one journalist.
By Julia Conley • Jan 22, 2025
"I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away," said the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde.
By Julia Conley • Jan 21, 2025
"Trump is again proving that he lied to the American people and doesn't care about lowering costs—only what's best for himself and his ultra-rich friends."
By Jake Johnson • Jan 21, 2025
"Trans people, refugees, and migrants are not the threats," the group said. "The billionaires with close ties to our new president who flash the Nazi salute and seek to replace the old elites with a new caste—that is the real threat to America."
By Jake Johnson • Jan 21, 2025
One former Swedish prime minister called the Republican president's pledge to grow U.S. territory "a recipe for global instability."
By Brett Wilkins • Jan 20, 2025
"Tomorrow we'll get an explanation that it wasn't a Sieg Heil, he was just pantomiming his 'heart going out to the people.' Legacy media will basically accept this explanation. But you know what you saw and you know what he is," wrote one observer.
By Eloise Goldsmith • Jan 20, 2025
"Today marks the beginning of an administration dominated by billionaires and corporate interests."
By Jake Johnson • Jan 20, 2025
"Trump's White House is government by the billionaires, for the billionaires," said the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
By Jake Johnson • Jan 20, 2025
