Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Tag: Republicans

Paul Ryan fundraised with health insurance lobbying firm just before his...

Records show Ryan spent much of the year flying to resorts and huddling with lobbyists to raise huge amounts of cash to maintain his party’s control of the House of Representatives.

The facts on the GOP health care bill

Many of the ACA taxes would be eliminated.

3 terrifying reasons for Trump’s latest rant

Republican leaders must stand up and call this what it is: Dangerous demagoguery.

Trump’s spectacle misdirects us from our government’s destruction

Trump provides the bizarre behavior that will get us to “Look over there!” And while we’re all gazing at the shiny object, the pro-corporate and anti-worker agenda unfolds.

CPAC and the DNC: A party is not a movement

The Democratic Party can’t be saved by one leader. But there’s a chance it can be saved by millions of them.

The Republican bid to kill the Affordable Care Act is a...

If their plan goes through, we’ll have to prepare to care for our aging parents at home without the skills or time to do it properly.

America’s democracy is morphing into a combination of a dictatorship, an...

The foundations of this system of unlimited power and control over U.S. citizens have been developing over some time under various presidents.

The republican tax sham

The tax plan is dressed up as a way to make America more competitive. But underneath it’s just a typical Republican plan.

This isn’t just Trump. This is who the Republicans are.

It’s not just Trump, Republicans as a party are using Trump to engage in a general assault on protections from corruption, pollution, corporate fraud and financial scams.

The real reason Republicans want to pull the plug on Obamacare

This is lunacy. We must stand up to it.

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The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Farragutful / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs

A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
Hogs in a confinement barn. Hog operations account for nearly 60 percent of the manure produced by Iowa's mapped livestock facilities, Sentient Media found. Photo: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

We Mapped All 11,000 Factory Farms in Iowa. Here Are Five Things We Learned.

Here’s what the data reveal about the country’s factory farm hotbed.
A patient room and bed. Photo: Diane A. Reid, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Nursing Home Beds Are Becoming More Scarce

As the oldest baby boomers turn 80, researchers worry there won’t be enough room in nursing facilities for a rapidly graying nation.
The Royal Courts of Justice in London, where the high court issued its ruling. Photo: The wub / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

New Carter-Ruck ruling could leave legal watchdog ‘toothless’ against SLAPPs

The ruling also threatens six unrelated SRA investigations into fraud and dishonesty that relied on the same privileged material.
A guided bomb unit JDAM kit, the same guidance kit at the center of the proposed Saudi sale, is assembled by U.S. partner-nation forces in the Middle East. Photo: U.S. Air Force AFCENT by Staff Sgt. Jovante Johnson (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Senators move to block $5 billion bomb sale to Saudi Arabia

The bombs would arm Saudi jets as senators also demand to see classified side letters on a separate nuclear deal.