“White supremacists and other domestic extremists maintain an active presence in U.S. police departments and other law enforcement agencies. A striking reference to that conclusion, notable for its confidence and the policy prescriptions that accompany it, appears in a classified FBI Counterterrorism Policy Guide from April 2015 …” More …
CBO-Derived Healthcare Coverage Losses by State and Congressional District
“The Center for American Progress has estimated how many Americans would lose healthcare coverage by state and congressional district based on the CBO’s projections. By 2026, on average, about 53,000 fewer people will have coverage in each congressional district. Table 1 provides estimates by state, and a spreadsheet of estimates by state and district can be downloaded.” More …
How Trump Has Made the Department of Health and Human Services a Center of False Science on Contraception
“Contraception policy may not be the biggest target of the anti-science right wing — climate change and evolution probably rank higher — but it’s the field in which scientific disinformation has the most immediate consequences for public health. So it’s especially disturbing that Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price have stocked the corridors of health policy with purveyors of conclusively debunked claptrap about contraception, abortion, pregnancy and women’s reproductive health generally.” More …
Trump’s Housing Cuts Spare the One Program He Profits From
“The president’s budget demands draconian cuts to public housing — but maintains a subsidy to landlords that nets him millions each year.” More …
Ford Defies Trump by Outsourcing Fusion Production to China
“Ford announced Tuesday that the next-generation Ford Focus, which begins production in the second half of 2019, will initially be exported from China. Additional cars will come from Europe following that, but at no point will it be built in the US.” More …
The CIA’s Torture Program, as Explained by the Psychologists Who Designed It
“The former military psychologists who designed the CIA’s torture program are now describing it in their own words for the first time, reopening one of the grimmest chapters in Washington’s war on terror and providing disturbing details about what was done to detainees in the name of US national security.” More …
Cook Report on GA-06: Why Handel’s Win Isn’t a Disaster for Democrats
“The good news for Republicans is that swarms of national media and images of Nancy Pelosi still motivate their base. The bad news for Republicans is that they can’t count on this type of high turnout across the board in November 2018. In fact, it would be shocking if any House race drew a third of the $55 million spent on the GA-06 special election. And that means Democrats’ enthusiasm edge should be wider in most places than it was in GA-06. ” More …
GOP ‘Moderates’ Worry Gutting Medicaid During a Public-Health Crisis Might Have Some Downsides
“The GOP has a talent for ignoring the despair of the dis-empowered. But the opioid epidemic concentrated its suffering in white, rural communities that tend to vote Republican. And so, GOP candidates spent much of 2016 decrying Washington’s insufficient efforts to curb the crisis, and promising to do more to help, if voters would only put them in power… The pitch worked. Donald Trump won the presidency (in no small part) by outperforming expectations in regions devastated by opiods. Republicans won competitive Senate races in some of the country’s hardest-hit states. And all across America, rural districts hurt by the epidemic returned GOP incumbents to their House seats. The Republican Party then promptly used its unified control of government to push a health-care bill that cuts one of the nation’s top funding sources for addiction treatment by $834 billion.” More …
Did the Trump Organization Make Money from Eric Trump’s Cancer Charity?
“The not-so-charitable activities of the president’s own Donald J. Trump Foundation are, by now, well-documented. But a new report in Forbes suggests the foundation belonging to the president’s second son, Eric, might have been party to some questionable activities of its own.” More …
Trump’s First 100 Days Have Been a Moneymaking Success Story: He’s Getting What He Cares About
“Trump and his family appear to be making money hand over fist. It’s a spectacle the likes of which we’ve never seen in the United States, and while it may end in disaster for the Trumps someday, for now it shows no real sign of failure.” More …