Tag: Paul Krugman
OPINION: Is America on the mend? YES
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Almost four years have passed since Covid-19 struck. In America, the pandemic killed well over a million people and left millions more...
OPINION: Nikki Haley is coming for your retirement
By PAUL KRUGMAN
It feels like years ago, but actually only a few months have passed since many big Republican donors seemed to believe that...
OPINION: Autoworkers strike a blow for equality
By PAUL KRUGMAN
It’s not officially over yet, but the United Auto Workers appear to have won a significant victory. The union, which began rolling...
OPINION: Biden and America’s big Green push
By PAUL KRUGMAN
A year ago, defying predictions that President Biden’s agenda was dead in the water, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act. The IRA...
OPINION: America needs to empower workers again
Unions aren’t obsolete, and we need to get them back
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Labor activists hoped that the unionization vote at Amazon’s Bessemer, Ala., warehouse would...
OPINION: When did Republicans start hating facts?
A straight line runs from Reagan to Trump
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Republicans spent most of 2020 rejecting science in the face of a runaway pandemic; now...
Trump strikes back, trashing the nation on his way out the...
By PAUL KRUGMAN
We all knew that Donald Trump would react badly to defeat. But his refusal to concede, the destructiveness of his temper tantrum...
OPINION: We should help workers, not kill them
By PAUL KRUGMAN
As far as I can tell, most epidemiologists are horrified by America’s rush to reopen the economy, to abandon much of the...
OPINION: How Trump got trickled down
He pretended to be different. He was lying.
By PAUL KRUGMAN
One thing many people forget about the 2016 election is that as a candidate, Donald...
OPINION: The failure of Trumponomics
Neither tax cuts nor tariffs are working
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Donald Trump has pursued two main economic policies.
On taxes, he has been an orthodox Republican,...