The House speaker warned that social services would get cut in favor of the military budget.

Addiction recovery centers where alcohol is abundant. Hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid fraud. And countless people plucked off the street by strangers in vans—sometimes never to be seen again.

The GOP wants additional work requirements for SNAP and Medicaid beneficiaries in the debt ceiling deal, despite evidence that shows they are ineffective.

The Republican proposal would fail at addressing the debt but would succeed in making people’s lives worse in more ways than one.

The GOP is again pushing for harsher work requirements for Medicaid and SNAP—even though it would barely dent our national debt.

The Florida representative wants to force people to work to get health care.

The former Texas senator says income inequality is a myth. He couldn’t be more wrong, but I admire the old grouch for trying.

I spoke with Senator Debbie Stabenow, the architect of the law’s mental health care provisions, to understand how it happened—and what it can teach us about policy reform.

Tens of millions of people could get booted off their health care in a matter of months—but it’s an avoidable disaster.

As the party seeks to shave down the price tag of the Biden agenda to appease holdouts, some Americans are going to get left behind.

The program is providing life-saving coverage to nearly a quarter of all Americans, but it’s not sustainable.

Millions of people in the United States provide essential care for children, aging parents, or loved ones with disabilities. It shouldn’t be this hard to make it work.

Wherever they hold power, Republicans work in lockstep to deny their constituents life-saving health care.

It’s not that he doesn’t have a plan. It’s just not clear how it would work—and the media hasn’t pressed him on it.

“Any gains we made in funding for health departments, syringe exchanges, naloxone distribution—it’s all at risk.”

The pandemic has offered a brief respite from policies that force people to work to “deserve” basic support like food stamps. We can’t go back.

It does your readers no good to keep them at a remove from the partisan politics that built this calamitous system.

Fiscal scolds say the bipartisan agreement will irreparably damage the country. In truth, it will help those hurt the most by the Great Recession.