Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps and Unemployment on the GOP Chopping Block
"The House Budget Committee is considering instructing Congress to pursue the cuts to a rarely-touched slice of the budget that…
8 years ago
Thoughts From a Hospital Bed
"And what it means to be healthy, or unhealthy, in the United States of 2017." More ...
8 years ago
Republicans’ Trumpcare Bill Takes $600 Billion Out of Health Care to Cut Taxes for the Rich
Trumpcare eliminates $600 billion in taxes. "When you take all that money out of the system, something has to give.…
8 years ago
These Are All the People the Republican Trumpcare Bill Will Hurt
"The Congressional Budget Office estimated in March that 24 million people would lose health insurance if the AHCA were to…
8 years ago
Blackwater Founder Held Seychelles Meeting to Establish Trump-Russia Back Channel: Report
"Blackwater founder Erik Prince, brother of Betsy DeVos, met with a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin in early January…
8 years ago
Workers Endured Long Hours, Low Pay at Chinese Factory Used by Ivanka Trump’s Clothing-Maker
"Workers at a factory in China used by the company that makes clothing for Ivanka Trump’s fashion line and other…
8 years ago
Study Finds Fracking Is Strongly Related to Increased Infant Mortality
"A new study of Pennsylvania counties published this week in the Journal of Environmental Protection shows for the first time that contamination…
8 years ago
Trump Is Slashing Programs Linking Climate Change to U.S. National Security
"President Donald Trump, with nearly all the government’s climate change work in his crosshairs, is poised to dramatically scale back…
8 years ago
Evaluating Trump’s First 100 Days — On His Own Terms
"Of Trump’s roughly 30 concrete pledges, he has arguably just accomplished three of them, making progress on only a handful…
8 years ago
Specter of Illegitimacy Haunts Trump’s First 100 Days
"Donald Trump narrowly won his party’s nomination despite the clear misgivings of his party’s professional class, which viewed him as…
8 years ago