Saturday, November 7, 2026

How many people will die for each rich American’s Trumpcare tax cut?

Trump and the other Republicans who support this bill share something in common: their personal tastes may be expensive but, for them, the lives of most Americans are insignificant and cheap.

The progressive’s guide to reacting to offensive comedy

Ten tips for when everyone says your favorite comedian has “gone too far.”

Popular farm pesticide found in drinking water

Though the study was exclusive to Iowa, it could have far-reaching effects on the entire U.S.

U.S. Senators: Heartland Institute mailings to grade school science teachers ‘possibly fraudulent’

This group of senators now wants DeVos to answer detailed questions about her contacts with the Heartland Institute.
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Is Trump the worst president in American history?

Donald Trump is degrading the core institutions and values of our democracy. But America is fighting back.
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The 3 choices when it comes to Trump

Democracy is fragile, it requires all of us to protect it.

Three reasons why the super-rich should embrace a 70% tax rate

If they really want to "improve the state of the world," they should be using all their lobbyists and lawyers to make sure their tax money is supporting a cooperative national effort to protect the environment for their great-grandchildren and to remain competitive in the technologies of the future.

Ukraine war: while most Americans express outrage, Putin’s spell continues to hang over Republicans

How can we explain the autocrat’s enduring spell over the Republicans? And how might it impact upon the midterm elections due to take place in a few months’ time?

12 notes from a political autopsy

The left and the party faithful may be angry at each other, but they’re on the same side now, locked together in a nonviolent political movement to resist Trumpism and remake American politics.

What Wall Street doesn’t want you to know about hospital emergency rooms

The furor over patients hit by surprise medical bills revealed that TeamHealth controls the billing for the doctors it supplies to hospital emergency rooms.