The Senate finally approves aid for Flint, but at an expense
“Federal funding to help begin fixing the pipes at the heart of the Flint water crisis is shamefully overdue.”
119 Democrats join with GOP to block restoration of voting rights for incarcerated people
Rep. Cori Bush, the amendment’s author, noted that “97 Democrats stood up for our community members who are incarcerated” and vowed to “keep up this fight.”
The Presidential Debate That Did Not Really Happen
It was not a debate so much as an opportunity to display Trump’s ability to weave an alternate reality for his acolytes.
Banana Amerika: The Fix Is In!!!
Here is my conspiracy theory: The empire that controls both political parties did not want Sanders to be the nominee.
Wheels coming off
What unifies this country: Common values and common knowledge.
Two sides, same coin: Suppressing votes, cutting rich people’s taxes
America’s national media typically pay little attention to the moves the nation’s state lawmakers make. Not this year. State legislative battles have...
The attack on Western democracy
Are Western democracies under attack from Russia and the alt-right in America, in an effort to put racist nationalists in power?
Pharma mobilizes army of lobbyists to tank Democrats’ Medicare drug pricing plan
"Big Pharma is fighting hard to keep their price-setting monopoly intact," said one advocacy coalition.
Insurance stocks plunge as Medicare for All bill unveiled with major democratic support
"This is a milestone in the fight for universal healthcare and an equitable society, where working people make the decisions that determine our destiny."
What GOP New Yorkers Just Voted For: Torture, Syria Intervention and the Murder of...
Well, someone doesn’t know what he is doing.