Biden's proposed 2024 budget would improve many kinds of help for non-rich Americans, though not as much as is needed.

It also reduces future deficits, by increasing taxes on the rich.

It will not be easy to get any of this through the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, nor through the Senate where Manchin can block it. Robert Reich says that Biden knows it is impossible and the point of it is to present his goals and to influence negotiations.

Those are useful things to do to influence the outcome.

When US food prices in bulk went up last year, retail businesses raised their prices more than the commodity prices. Now bulk prices are decreasing, but those businesses are not reducing retail prices.

The cause of this is — not enough competition, after too many mergers.

Michigan has repealed the Republican law that allows businesses to hire workers that don't pay dues to support the union. That law gave businesses another way to attack unions.

Every time external power to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is cut off, it risks leading to a meltdown that would pollute a large region.

It is easy to say that we "can't allow this to continue," but we have no obvious way to stop it except for Ukraine to surrender to Putin. the challenge is to find a way to reduce the danger that Ukraine and Putin will both accept.

US railroad workers call for nationalization of the railroads on the grounds that billionaire stockholding executives will always skimp on public safety for the stockholders.