Sullivan and Begich came home to Alaska to sell the Big Beautiful Bill. Its detractors aren't hearing the pitch

Sullivan and Begich came home to Alaska to sell the Big Beautiful Bill. Its detractors aren't hearing the pitch

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — On Aug. 3, Alaska's U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan posted on social media a video he recorded at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in which he said he was preparing to return to Alaska to "keep explaining…

“Big Beautiful Bill” goes to the Dumpster: GOP now claims it’s a tax cut

Republican members of Congress across the country, as they begin to contemplate next year’s midterm elections, have adopted new messaging around their signature legislation, still officially known as the One Big Beautiful Bill. They seem to be dropping that nomenclature entirely and now describe…

Behind the 'One Big Beautiful Bill': Wealth for the Few

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act represents an over 40-year march toward concentrating wealth among the wealthy and deepening the racial disparity under the guise of economic growth. In practice, it is a project of wealth consolidation, recycling the same logic that stripped Black communities of opportunity, blamed them for its consequences, and codified that inequality into law.  In today’s economy, wealth is not the reward for hard work or suc…