Will Ragland is a senior director of research for the Advocacy and Outreach department at American Progress, where he leads strategic and investigative research in support of the building’s communications and campaign efforts. He has worked in similar roles since 2014 at American Progress.
From 2009 to 2014, Ragland served in the U.S. Department of Education as a special assistant in Secretary Arne Duncan’s Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs. While there, he helped manage the Obama administration’s budget, appropriations, and education policy priorities on the Hill.
Prior to this, Ragland was on President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign research staff, worked as a research assistant on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, served in Jamaica as a Peace Corps volunteer, and taught high school in rural Virginia.
He has his undergraduate degree in English and writing from the Virginia Military Institute.
A Republican default on the national debt would exacerbate inflation, increase costs, and put Americans’ benefits at risk.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s new policy vision for a potential GOP U.S. House of Representatives is light on details because the MAGA agenda is heavy on extreme policies.
The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act will fight inflation; bring down the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs; cut health care costs; make historic investments to tackle climate change; and significantly cut the deficit.
Sen. Rick Scott’s education plan would cut the funding equivalent of 433,000 public school teachers, eliminate Pell Grants, and zero out programs for students with disabilities.
At least 104 MAGA Republican ads this cycle display and feature firearms or weapons, blowtorches, and even “Tommy” gun auctions, with many including threats against opponents on both the left and right.
A once-fringe conspiracy theory, made more prominent by leaders on the right, continues to violently divide the United States.
Republicans in Congress have spent the first 100 days of the Biden administration undermining America on the pandemic, the economy, and the fundamental tenets of democracy.
Jesse Lee and Will Ragland explain why no president in modern history has embodied the qualities of corruption more than President Donald Trump.
By rushing to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, President Donald Trump and his allies in Congress are yet again undermining health coverage for Americans with preexisting conditions.
The United States’ 200,000 coronavirus deaths is greater than the population of 670 major cities across the country
President Trump has made it clear, again and again, that he intends to defund Social Security.
