Pharma-funded Republicans go to bat for drug industry as Medicare moves to negotiate prices
"Any effort by far-right Republicans to paint lowering the costs of prescription drug prices for Americans as a bad thing is laughable."
Why Trump justice is an oxymoron
Like Nixon, Trump has usurped the independence of the Department of Justice for his own ends.
Five things Obama should do before leaving office (but probably won’t)
I offer this list not with a naive optimism that Obama will actually act on them, but rather to point out how many crucial issues a sitting Democratic president has the power to control but often chooses not to.
Trump attempting to protect corporations from legal liability for workers who contract Covid-19 on...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce claimed this issue is the largest area of concern for the business community before reopening doors.
The 2024 election is about the rich stealing from the public
A fight over extending provisions of Trump’s tax cuts is at stake in November’s election. Ultimately, the race is about money.
How we got Donald Trump
Our president is a product and beneficiary of several decades worth of vainglory, cynicism, epic folly, political cowardice, missed opportunities, and a public not given to paying attention.
Will Obama’s offshore drilling ban be Trumped?
What can a new president and a new congress do?
Perfection no standard for re-election
Are we picking kings and queens,/ Or defending democratic dreams?
Pimps, whores and Johns
Walt Kelley’s Pogo comic strip had the greatest line: “We have met the enemy and he be us!”
Donald Trump’s reckless infatuation with nuclear weapons
Trump’s return to power in 2025 or the recklessness of some other leader of a nuclear-armed nation could unleash unprecedented catastrophe upon the world.