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I’ve always known African Americans face challenges — discrimination in health, housing, hiring, and a racially biased system of “justice." But at some level, I had grown comfortable in a nation paced by Oprah, LeBron, ...
The continued fight over the potential replacement has inadvertently highlighted the tangible gains achieved by the ACA and made the public acutely aware of the negative impacts of repeal. New polling finds the ACA is ...
The program, "Countering Violent Extremism," or CVE, would be changed to "Countering Islamic Extremism" or "Countering Radical Islamic Extremism," Reuters sources confirmed, and would no longer target groups such as white supremacists who have also ...
While the media spent the last week spilling digital ink over inauguration numbers, the new administration was diminishing women’s health and safety around the world, chipping away at health care for millions of Americans, and ...
The decision effectively amounts to a pause in future refugee admissions, given that the interviews are a crucial step in an often years-long process. It means that though Trump has not yet ordered a temporary ...
Every time I hear another lie come out of Trump's mouth — about his inauguration crowd (smaller than Barack Obama's and the Women's March), voter fraud (it didn't exist), the media's accusing him of attacking ...
The pattern of Trump’s relationship with the GOP-controlled Congress can be summed up in two words: rubber stamp. Congress proposes and Trump disposes, even if the actual details of how these different areas of government, ...
Republican leaders laid out plans for repealing Obamacare by spring, followed by funding the building of a border wall and reforming the tax code by late summer. While there is Republican enthusiasm about the idea ...
As researchers David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler explain, "The biggest and most definitive study of what happens to death rates when Medicaid coverage is expanded found that for every 455 people who gained coverage across ...
According to a handful of lawyers specializing in First Amendment and press issues, Trump is primed to use his office’s great power to intimidate, obstruct, censor, spy on, and silence the media. In the most ...
Trump and congressional Republicans campaigned on a promise to dismantle Obamacare. However, a legislative proposal by Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana would let states choose to keep Obamacare or move ...
Heading into the Oval Office shortly after the conclusion of his inaugural parade, Trump signed an order on the Affordable Care Act that urged government departments to "waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the ...
Donald Trump took power as the 45th president of the United States on Friday and pledged to end what he called an "American carnage" of rusted factories and crime in an inaugural address that was ...
As the Barack Obama presidency dwindles down to the last day, there's no silent amen. Donald Trump people are swarming the streets around Union Station. These Republicans seem to have come from the country to ...
Aides said Trump would not wait to wield one of the most powerful tools of his office, the presidential pen, to sign several executive actions that can be implemented without the input of Congress. Trump's ...
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