Saturday, April 27, 2024

As Sanders prepared Medicare bill, health care lobbyists bankrolled Senate Democrats

Since 2010, Democratic senators who have refused to sponsor the bill have raised twice as much insurance industry cash as those who support the legislation.
video

Meet Dulce Garcia: DREAMer & immigration lawyer who is suing Trump for ending DACA

Dulce Garcia is an immigration lawyer who regularly defends other immigrants in court in California.

How Monsanto manufactured ‘outrage’ at chemical cancer classification it expected

“Glyphosate is suspect… Monsanto’s argument is unacceptable.”

These companies support climate action, so why are they funding opposition to it?

A tale of Paris climate agreement supporters, political spending and unintended consequences.

Why hurricanes Harvey and Irma won’t lead to action on climate change

The hurricanes of Harvey and Irma will be a catalyst for a new age of realism regarding the hazards of climate change.

‘Red alert’ sounded: Trumpcare is back, more brutal and deadly than ever

Sen. Bernie Sanders called the new Obamacare repeal plan “yet another disastrous Republican proposal to throw millions of people off health insurance.”

Leaked Zinke memo urges Trump to shrink national monuments, allow drilling

Zinke also proposed opening these publicly held national monuments up to drilling, logging, commercial fishing and other activities for private profit.

Experts say the use of private email by Trump’s voter fraud commission isn’t legal

Instructions have been lacking, says one commissioner – a sharp contrast with similar groups in the past.

The 3 Americans who should pay for Medicare-for-All

Will the super-rich support American health?

Beyond Harvey and Irma

Militarizing Homeland Security in the climate-change era.