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If AI Makes Us More Productive, Why Aren’t We Working Less?
A tool that saves you hours should leave you with some of them. Turning that possibility into a shorter working week will take workers having a say in what happens to the gains.
6 min readNovember 7, 2026The Long Why
Abdul El-Sayed Won. Democrats Need to Rethink “Electable.”
A candidate who ran on Medicare for All and taxing billionaire wealth just won a Senate seat in Michigan. The people who tell Democrats those policies make a candidate unelectable owe us an explanation.
4 min readNovember 7, 2026The Long Why
It’s Time to Replace Schumer and Jeffries
Democratic voters won a new congressional majority. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries should not get to decide its direction by default.
4 min readNovember 5, 2026The Long Why
Democrats Won Congress. Now They Have to Deliver Accountability.
Voters have given Democrats the power to investigate the Trump administration. We need to hold them to it, then change the rules that keep our political choices so narrow.
4 min readNovember 4, 2026The Long Why
We Help Fund Israel’s Defense. Why Don’t We Guarantee Healthcare at Home?
Washington made a ten-year military commitment to Israel. An American worker who gets laid off can still spend the next week trying to find a health plan that covers their doctor.
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