It is a bitter irony that on the second anniversary of the Insurrection, McCarthy finally made enough concessions to become Speaker to the very people who participated in that crime against our country.
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Banks have identified medical credit cards as a lucrative opportunity to profit off of the worsening crisis of patients who are unable to afford their medical care.
It is entirely possible that the combination of just wind and solar will outpace nuclear power and maybe even that of coal during the next twelve months.
When I envision the people I want leading this country, it’s people who have a baseline for decency. People who are compassionate, not cruel. But right now, one party—the GOP—is objectively more cruel than the other.
Not long after being allowed back on Twitter, arrogant right wing "influencer," Andrew Tate decided to attack climate hero Greta Thunberg. Greta's deadpan responses ended up getting him much more attention than he bargained for.
Southwest Airlines made a risky gamble that mass layoffs and spending billions of dollars on handouts to investors rather than fixing infrastructure would pay off with record profits. The airline lost that bet badly.
Beginning next year, the law will also require drug companies to pay Medicare a rebate if they raise their drug prices at a faster rate than inflation. Additionally, the law will limit monthly insulin cost-sharing to $35 for people with Medicare Part D.
To the far right, cruelty is more than a means to achieving a policy goal—it is often the goal itself. Cruelty for cruelty's sake—directed against "the other," a variable collection of liberals, immigrants, and minority groups.
Three buses coming from Texas dropped off about 140 recent migrants—including babies and young children—near VP Harris’ residence in Washington, D.C., in historically frigid temperatures on Christmas Eve.
If political parties were labeled with consumer information in the manner the FDA mandates that cigarettes be labeled, the GOP would be branded with bold letters: "WARNING: THIS PRODUCT WILL KILL YOU."
The question today is whether we as a nation and a people will recover from Reaganism, or if it will, as Reagan promised, destroy the American experiment of pluralistic liberal democracy.
The petition argues that Republican Reps. like Paul Gosar, Lauren Boebert, and Marjorie Taylor Greene "are ineligible to hold future public office" under the 14th Amendment.
The American media needs to call this movement what it is, fascism, and demand accountability and answers from the thousands of Republican politicians nationwide who refuse to repudiate it.
Medicare Advantage is actually just private insurance that uses the trusted Medicare name to trick seniors and people with disabilities into enrolling, then profits by denying coverage for necessary medical care.
The parallels between Trump's presidency and the patterning of fascist propaganda are plain to see: the relentless repetition and disinformation, the scapegoating of the Other, the strongman identity and victimhood.
A specialty of the so-called "champions of freedom" is to prohibit everything that does not suit their interests. Their repeated “free speech” means “freedom to harass and censor.”