Like his previous campaigns, Romney’s Senate bid will be gloriously degrading and morbidly funny.
Affordable Care Act
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Even More Nonsense from John Kasich
Does anybody buy the good-guy act at this point? America’s favorite fake-moderate was dragged on to NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday, and again tried to promote the dubious idea that Donald Trump and Roy Moore are anomalies in the GOP, as opposed to being an accurate representation of what his party thinks and believes: Ohio […]
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Keith Olbermann’s Famous Last Words
As soon as I heard the news, I thought back to the fall of 1993, when Billy Joel began hinting in the wake of the release of the River of Dreams album that he wouldn’t be releasing any new material, and Michael Jordan announced his retirement from professional basketball. Yes, the Piano Man did return […]
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The GOP Tax Bill Is Reparations for the Rich
This bill is nothing short of a declaration of holy war against the poor.
Posted inMagazine, November/December 2017
Mind-Body Connections
How four counties in Pennsylvania are improving the lives of patients suffering from both serious mental illness and chronic health conditions.
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What’s the Fate of the DACA and Obamacare Fixes?
The DACA and ACA fixes have bipartisan support, but neither of them can pass in the light of day.
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Real Disaster Cannot Be Put Off Much Longer
The Trump administration is entering its most dangerous phase.
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Thoughts and Prayers for Jimmy Kimmel
Integrity is not good for one’s career prospects on network television. You have to think that ABC executives are beside themselves with anxiety due to Jimmy Kimmel’s courageous condemnations of the Republican Party’s firearms fetish–especially so soon after he called out the GOP’s fixation on snatching health care from millions of Americans. Outside of ABC […]
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Talk to the Hand: An Appalling Anniversary
It should have been over a year ago. It should have effectively ended the election. It did not–and the fact that it did not speaks volumes about this country. One year ago today, the Washington Post reported: Donald Trump bragged in vulgar terms about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women during a […]
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Will Obamacare Ever Be Safe?
Republicans are threatening to keep the repeal effort going, but they’re so inept and confused that they’re unlikely to succeed.
