The Republican solution—free markets and choice—is a return to the bad old days. When you scratch below the surface, it doesn’t add up. Insurance works best with a large pool (mandate), core coverage (10 Essential ...
For most of this decade, Democrats have not understood why they keep losing the U.S. House and state legislatures to Republican super-majorities. It’s not because American voters have moved to the right. The biggest single ...
Obama was vilified as a Russian patsy for actions that don't remotely approach what we know Trump and his circle have done. Today, all but a few congressional Republicans avert their eyes and swallow their ...
On Thursday, the New York Times columnist called Republicans' efforts to roll back some of the savage Medicaid cuts a "scam." That's because McConnell's health care legislation dictates tax-favored health savings accounts pay insurance premiums. ...
During the first half of the year in state legislatures, drug companies have fought bills to reduce medicine prices; the financial industry has tried to stop legislation to end special state tax breaks; and oil ...
"Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough made a surprising announcement on "The Late Show" with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday: The former Florida Republican Congressman is giving his party the boot.
As Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sweats to cut deals over his bill to dismantle federal healthcare safety nets, the latest polls are finding that the more people know about its details, the more they're ...
Before President Trump even approved the Keystone Pipeline, GOP mega-donors Robert Mercer and Rebekah Mercer were already celebrating with a two-day anti-climate conference sponsored by the conservative Heartland Institute. Among the speakers was British climate ...
Another anti-Obamacare talking point featured conservative media figures decrying the allegedly undemocratic process by which Congress passed the ACA, claiming that Democrats were trying to “ram it down America’s throat.” Right-wing media took then-Speaker of ...
Trump's appeal is much broader. Cognitive scientist George Lakoff has spent decades studying how conservatives have won by nurturing a worldview of a powerful authority enforcing discipline through strength. Last summer, he tried to warn ...
Steve King's latest white nationalist tweet reflects a long history of racist remarks and reactionary policy promoted by the Iowa Republican.
The AHCA is rightly being derided as a cruddy facsimile of Obamacare that massively shifts wealth from the lowest income brackets to the highest. The rationales for foisting this botch on the not-so-well-to-do are grounded ...
Trump managed to persuade a lot of those white Americans that he would give them better and cheaper health insurance. That's not going to happen. Trump was too smart to ridicule the have-nots while he ...
It's time to face up to the obvious: The President of the United States is deranged. He is pathologically addicted to lying, bizarrely repeating his most blatant fabrications even after they've been totally debunked.