Plus, Trump accidentally handed Dems their big win in Virginia; Trump’s Labor Secretary’s impressive legacy of sleaze; and more ...
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Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they’re greedy monopolists who’d sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way—and they have to be stopped.
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Tens of millions of medical claims are denied every year, yet little scholarly attention has been paid to their scale or impact on patients’ health and financial security. Combining compelling patient and physician narratives with original survey data, Miranda Yaver shows how denials deepen health and economic inequality in her new book, Coverage Denied.
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Travel bans, ICE fears, and astronomical costs are ruining the tournament before it begins—not that Trump or Gianni Infantino care.
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The leaked memos from a 2016 EPA case expose the spurious reasoning behind one of the justices’ most consequential decisions of the past decade.
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The Iran war has not turned out the way they promised, and they’re suffering major political blowback as a result.
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The administration’s vindictive targeting of the Southern Poverty Law Center is yet another mask-off moment.
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The "vote yes" campaign featured Trump in all of its closing ads in areas where it ran up huge numbers. Voters know who started this war.
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Lori Chavez-DeRemer is perhaps the least well known of the administration’s departing Cabinet members. That’s not for want of trying.
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In the heavily gerrymandered Buckeye State, the GOP-controlled legislature rules without fear of voters, and it’s hard at work dismantling democracy.
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Democrats have been quick to condemn the HHS secretary but slow to act against him. But cracks in his "Make American Healthy Again" movement are beginning to show, handing his critics a weapon.
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Last year, four huge companies pledged tens of millions of dollars to help fund the creation of Donald Trump’s presidential library, a planned monstrosity in Miami that—in a perfect Trumpian twist—may also double as a hotel. The companies—ABC; Paramount; Meta; and X, formerly Twitter—entered into the agreements with Trump to settle legal cases he’d brought against them which experts had dismissed as dubious.
After the companies agreed to these shakedowns—sorry, settlements—the fund created to receive donations was dissolved last September. Since then, Senate Democrats have been asking: What happened to the money?
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The president went to sleep during a White House event on health care affordability.
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