Tag: GOP
The secret health care bill
If this shameful bill is enacted, McConnell and Trump – as well as every Republican senator who signs on – will bear the burden of hundreds of thousands of deaths
Why Trump (and Gingrich) should stop whining about Robert Mueller
Every effort to discredit Mueller, from Fox News Channel to quasi-fascist social media, only underscores the right's desperation and fear.
The GOP will free you from having health care
You're free to be poor, free to be politically powerless or free to be ill and uncared for.
Kitchen logic: Don’t let Trump’s GOP privatize America
Why privatize our national patrimony when we have the money to repair it ourselves?
Stop making excuses for hateful white men
Racism – not mental illness – was behind the killings on the Portland train. Let’s call it what it is so we can deal with it.
Trump is the symptom, not the disease
Our failure to defend those who are demonized and persecuted leaves us all demonized and persecuted.
Noam Chomsky: The GOP is still the most dangerous organization in...
"It's not just Trump, every single Republican leader is the same."
America’s health is in the hands of GOP frat boys
Trump and his Republican allies don’t care about health care. They’re just out to look busy and cut taxes for the rich.
Trump’s unnecessary cruelty
Trump is embarking on an orgy of cruelty for absolutely no reason.
GOP marks international labor day by pushing death of mandatory overtime
Meanwhile Democratic lawmakers participated in demonstrations on Monday–to protest President Trump’s policies toward immigrant workers.
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Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.