Michael Hiltzik

The Social Security Administration lied about the GOP budget bill in a message to beneficiaries. Can we trust anything it tells us in the future?

Zohran Mamdani’s remarks about billionaires has the defenders of plutocrats in a tizzy. They should stop whining already.

Trump tours Florida’s new detention camp as ICE continues to harass brown-skinned workers and onlookers in California.

A self-described ‘democratic socialist’ crushed the field in the Democratic primary for NYC mayor. The forces of reaction are already mustering against him.

Big employers such as Walmart, Amazon and McDonald’s stick taxpayers with the bill for healthcare and food for their employees. The GOP budget will make life harder for those workers.

Two federal judges in the same courthouse came to different opinions on whether AI firms are breaching copyrights, signaling more legal confusion.

RFK Jr. turned the CDC’s vaccine committee into an anti-vaccine panel, but it still heard evidence that his campaign against vaccinating pregnant women was a huge mistake.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), a doctor, abandoned his good judgment to confirm Robert F. Kennedy as health secretary. He’s showing his regrets, finally.

Trump claimed credit for an increase in blue-collar wages, but much of that gain happened during the Biden administration.

The Social Security trustees say the program is still solvent, but Trump immigration and tax policies could deliver serious damage.