Tag: Republicans
The man who saw Trump coming a century ago
That’s Thorstein Veblen, the greatest American thinker you probably never heard of (or forgot).
House approves Save the Internet Act, votes to restore net neutrality
"The Save the Internet Act ensures that consumers have control over their Internet experience, rather than Internet service providers [controlling that experience]."
Republicans have put our country on a path of warp-speed decline—and...
Republicans don't seem to have much respect for the intelligence of the American people.
Republicans on health care: Do vast harm
The message is clear: to Republicans, health care is a right only for the rich; the rest can suffer and die. The GOP Hippocratic oath is: Do vast harm.
Pelosi and McConnell: Cranking up bipartisan madness for NATO
Only public education, activism, protests and a wide range of political organizing have the potential to disrupt and end the reflexive support for NATO in Washington.
What Republicans and billionaires really mean when they talk about ‘freedom’
Freedom to be homeless, jobless, and unable to access health care
when you need it.
After Trump
Centrist liberalism is dead, and Trump is a disaster. But progressives can use what he’s done to remake America and its place in the world.
A necessary voice: Ilhan Omar must not be silenced
Representative Omar has only held office for two months and not only faces attacks from within her own party, but also what amounts to a campaign of incitement launched by the right.
The yuge Republican lie about the deficit
It’s not social spending that’s causing the federal deficit to soar. It’s Republican tax cuts, especially on corporations and the wealthy.
House passes HR 1 – a sweeping anti-corruption bill to get...
“HR 1 restores the people’s faith that government works for the public interest, the people’s interest, not the special interest.”
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The first trillionaire – no big deal?
Multi-billionaires are bad enough; a trillionaire is a magnitude worse
Appeals court rules the constitution guarantees no right to clean water
A dissenting judge compared the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis to Flint's
ICE agent shoots delivery driver in Austin as officials question who will investigate
The Department of Homeland Security says it is leading the inquiry, with its Homeland Security Investigations unit in charge, a role the FBI has historically held, CBS News reported.
Trump says he is in ‘deciding mode’ on destroying Iran
The Pentagon's own death count is undercounting US troops killed in the seven-month war, the Washington Post has reported.
Secret Pfizer and Lilly contracts favor drugmakers over patients, records show
The deals let companies raise prices overseas while carving blockbuster obesity drugs out of required discounts.