The Polemicist

On August 8 th , Donald Trump took four executive actions on coronavirus relief. One was a memorandum deferring, to the end of the year, pay...

The Bernie Train Stops, but Will the Senator Continue to Fight From Outside? US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced Wednesday that...

Bullshit. Squared. It's a charade to get you to think you just HAVE to accept cuts in Social Security and Medicare. Every bit of it is a...

The New Year's "fiscal cliff" deal represents another Obama "victory." For whom? As pointed out in Holland's art...

Update below. “Social Security and Medicare have absolutely nothing to do with the short-term U.S. fiscal problem.” ...

Update on previous post,  " Social Security in the Great Jambalaya, ":   Dean Baker, in  The Guardian , " Cutting back benef...

“You know, I suspect that, on Social Security, we’ve got a somewhat similar position.” And on a lot of other things, too .

Further thoughts on the program in peril. Is there a Social Security crisis or not?  To hear some tell it, the Social Security Trust Fund*...

There’s an email petition appeal going around from firedoglake (FDL), encouraging us to “ Hold The Obama Campaign To Its Guarantee of '...