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Republicans Have Illegally Erected Roadblocks To Student Voting The first time I voted was 1972 at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. I turned 18...
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Howie Klein
Oct 47 min read
A Blue Dog Who Might Not Be Terrible? It Would Be Novel— First Will Rollins Has To Beat Ken Calvert
Democrats Are Always Better Than Republicans— Why Can't They Wipe The Floor With Them? After yearslong rabid Republican opposition, I was...
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Howie Klein
Jun 206 min read
Is The White House Messaging Team Doing What It Needs To Do To Defeat Trump?
Polling yesterday from Monmouth includes what Americans say their top concerns are— and a plurality say that neither Trump nor Biden, nor...
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Howie Klein
Jul 1, 20239 min read
Republican Supreme Court Screws Students On Behalf Of The Justices' Corporate Sponsors
Moments after the Republican Supreme Court handed down their ruling against Biden’ modest student loan debt relief plan, Data for...
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Howie Klein
Jun 22, 20232 min read
GOP Failed To Override Biden's Veto In The Student Debt Program-- Despite Help From 2 Blue Dogs
In May, Congressional Republicans passed a resolution to derail Biden’s student debt relief plan. Biden vetoed it. Yesterday Virginia...
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Howie Klein
Jun 16, 20236 min read
What To Do About Student Debt-- There's A Progressive Approach & A Conservative Approach
Bernie & Pramila vs The Economic Royalists Oh, look, after consistently sabotaging Democrats’ efforts to solve the problem, Senate...
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Thomas Neuburger
Jun 13, 20233 min read
Why Student Debt Is So High
The student loan program is a government-enabled transfer of wealth.
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Thomas Neuburger
Jun 6, 202310 min read
Biden Signs Off on Restarting Student Debt
This failure raises an uncomfortable larger question.
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Howie Klein
May 26, 20235 min read
Some Democrats Are Very Conservative And Have Virtually The Same Values That Republicans Have
Scandal-scarred and censured former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was back in Congress in 2018— and on the wrong side of Señor...
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Howie Klein
Mar 28, 20233 min read
The Politics Behind Blocking Student Debt Relief
A lot of Republicans signed on to the law suit to block Biden’s modest plan to give some student loan relief. Republicans in deep red...
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Howie Klein
Feb 28, 20234 min read
The Illegitimate Trump Supreme Court Will Decide On Student Debt Relief
Over Half The Republicans In Congress Oppose Debt Relief Today the Supreme Court will hear lawsuit brought by Republicans to stop debt...
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Howie Klein
Sep 23, 20223 min read
Conservatives In Congress Want To Take Things Away From People-- Will Voters Take Away Their Jobs?
Oregon Blue Dog Kurt Schrader was the last Democrat in the House to vote against raising the minimum wage and one of the last to oppose...
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Noah
Sep 4, 20222 min read
Midnight Meme Of The Day! Republicans Feel Slapped In The Face? Okay!!!
by Noah Sunday Thoughts: Wow. It's been about 12 days now since President Biden announced his college loan debt forgiveness plan and the...
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Howie Klein
Aug 26, 20226 min read
GOP Extremism Is Helping Democrats In State Legislative Races Too
We’ve been looking repeatedly at how Democratic Party prospects for the midterms have done a complete about face since: The illegitimate...
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Howie Klein
Aug 26, 20224 min read
Republicans Follow Marjorie Traitor Greene Right Into The Student Loan Hypocrisy Trap
Yesterday on Twitter, when people weren’t laughing about Marjorie Traitor Greene trying to make a federal case about getting a prank...
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Howie Klein
Aug 25, 20225 min read
From Red Wave To Red Ripple-- Will A Blue Wave Materialize This Fall?
The media narrative about Tuesday’s elections, jumped right over the primaries and went to the special election to fill the open Antonio...
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Howie Klein
Aug 25, 20229 min read
What Comes After Biden For Democrats? Does It Have To Be Downhill?
Most professional Democrats either are or are pretending they’re overjoyed with Biden’s $10,000 student debt cancellation. One of my...
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Howie Klein
Aug 24, 20224 min read
The GOP Has A New Line Of Attack Against Democrats: Forgiving A Bit Of Student Debt
“Democrats,” whined the NRCC’s spokesman Mike Berg this morning, “are forcing people who didn’t go to college to pay off student loans...
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Howie Klein
Aug 23, 20223 min read
Conservatives Oppose Student Debt Forgiveness-- Big Surprise
For many years after college I had no capacity to repay my student debt. I was scraping by, smuggling Indian saris to Ceylon (now Sri...
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Howie Klein
Jul 24, 20222 min read
Larry Summers Has Tons Of Bad Advice To Share— For Free
Recession-maker and former hedge fund manager Larry Summers, perhaps best known as the progenitor of the catastrophic post-Soviet...
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