Medicare launches first-ever drug price negotiations with pharmaceutical giants
"We are moving ahead to help people in spite of pharma's efforts to block negotiation in the courts."
Watchdogs say Elon Musk has ‘declared war on Social Security’
Critics warn Musk’s endorsement of anti-Social Security rhetoric and his advisory role could pave the way for privatization, threatening millions of Americans’ financial security.
AT&T, Time Warner and the Death of Privacy
All your internet searches and preferences, all gathered and “vertically integrated,” sold to police and perhaps, in the future, to any number of AT&T’s corporate customers.
Rug pulls, stable coins and selling the American presidency
When stripped of the obfuscating terminology associated with all things crypto, most of these schemes are just old school pump and dumps, usually aided by technology to buy and sell the coins faster than anyone else, called sniping.
California’s monarch butterfly population at near-record low
The count of 9,119 butterflies this winter is a sharp decline from 200,000 reported in the past three years, but slightly up from 2,000 monarch reported in 2020.
How Republicans could steal the next presidential election
Your vote is important, and not just in federal elections. The future of our democracy is not guaranteed.
Entitlements Are Bankrupting America. But the Rich Keep Taking Them.
With extreme inequality plaguing the U.S., the rich continue to bankrupt the middle and lower classes. They have a feeling of entitlement from our nation's many years of productivity. We have to stop ignoring the real problem.
Botched or rigged? Iowa’s caucus disaster
Despite the confidence, the two systems meant to safeguard the caucuses from controversy failed spectacularly.
40 Democrats join Republicans and vote for $717 billion military spending bill
The NDAA will hit Donald Trump's desk today and is "on track to become law before the start of the fiscal year for the first time since the fiscal 1997 bill."
300,000 petition signatures delivered to Senate for the protection of abortion rights under federal...
“Over the past several weeks, right-wing extremists have inched us closer and closer toward a society without the precedent of Roe v. Wade.”