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By David Rothkopf
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By Barbara Ehrenreich
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By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers —
The weekly news is like a recurring bad dream that is becoming an even worse nightmare. While the investor class cheers a rising stock market, the rest of us sink. The headline that jumped out at us this week came from Bloomberg News: “CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law.”
Posted on May 17, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the latest sign that Anthony Weiner will enter the New York City mayoral race and televangelist Pat Robertson’s dubious marital advice for women.
Posted on May 16, 2013
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WHO U.S. Mission/Eric Bridiers
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This is incredibly sad, outrageous or corrupt, depending on where you sit, but it is being reported that Kathleen Sebelius has been asking health insurers to help fund the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on May 10, 2013
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A chemist tried to swap orange juice bottles with containers filled with rubbing alcohol at a coffee shop in San Jose, Calif.; Republicans’ insistence on hampering immigration reform thanks to a provision concerning gay immigrants is utter stupidity; meanwhile, people with health insurance are going bankrupt thanks to medical costs, but Obamacare isn’t the answer. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on May 6, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the House’s 37th attempt to appeal Obamacare, and George Takei has some suggestions on how to deal with anti-gay hypocrites.
Posted on May 6, 2013
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Pavel Constantin, Cagle Cartoons, Romania —
Posted on May 6, 2013
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By Robert Reich — The West, Texas, chemical and fertilizer plant where at least 15 people were killed and more than 200 injured a few weeks ago hadn’t been fully inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 1985.
Posted on May 5, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Ted Cruz’s attempt to repeal Obamacare and why the debate on gay marriage may be over even before the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a pair of cases on the issue this week.
Posted on Mar 24, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Mar 24, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Sen. Rand Paul’s “news flash” for Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, and Sen. Saxby Chambliss tells a reporter that “I’m not gay. So I’m not going to marry one.”
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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By Robert Reich — The Republican Party makeover is breathtaking. Now, suddenly, instead of accusing Democrats of being “redistributionists,” the GOP is posing as defender of the middle class against corporate America—and it’s doing so by proposing to do away with the most progressive piece of legislation in well over a decade.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Rep. Paul Ryan has figured out a way to balance the budget: Give corporations and wealthy people tax breaks they don’t need while aggressively cutting health and social programs that middle and lower-income Americans do.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — If Rep. Paul Ryan wants people to take his budget manifestos seriously, he should be honest about his ambition: not so much to make the federal government fiscally sustainable as to make it smaller.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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Medical costs are at an all time high and Obamacare barely touches on the tip of the iceberg that is the U.S. health care problem; a mural by the infamous graffiti artist Banksy that had disappeared from a London shop under mysterious circumstances gets dramatically pulled from auction; meanwhile, an award-winning photograph by Paolo Pellegrin misrepresents its subject and setting, and plagiarizes its caption. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Feb 27, 2013
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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists ask: Will sequester madness lead to across the board budget cuts? If you’re not pro-universal health care, then are you pro-euthanasia? And at the Oscars, should it be “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Silver Linings Playbook” or “Argo”?
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a major reversal by Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Obamacare and the NRA is already working to influence the 2014 election.
Posted on Feb 20, 2013
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By Alexander Reed Kelly — Mindful of the bewildering complexity of the issues they report, the best journalists are also teachers who patiently explain the deep meanings and consequences of their findings in language literate audiences can understand. With the Affordable Care Act going into full effect in less than a year, a detailed lesson on how it will impact many Americans’ finances is urgent.
Posted on Feb 9, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — America’s Big Religious War on contraception coverage ended Friday. Or at least it ought to after the Department of Health and Human Services’ announcement of new regulations.
Posted on Feb 1, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on Jan 27, 2013
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“The fiscal cliff deal, approved by Congress on New Year’s Day, eliminates most of the more than $1.4 billion in remaining funding from the federal health law for new nonprofit, customer-owned health plans designed to compete against the major for-profit insurers,” reports MedPage Today.
Posted on Jan 4, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the company that would rather pay a daily $1.3 million fine than fund contraceptive coverage and a news magazine’s accidental posting of an obituary of an ex-president who is still alive.
Posted on Dec 30, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the late Sen. Daniel Inouye’s last political wish and the worst pundit predictions of this year.
Posted on Dec 24, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The human capacity to put passion and intense feeling over cool rationality does not surprise us when it comes to love, sex, family, friendship, certain kinds of religious commitment and even devotion to sports teams.
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
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By failing to submit their Obamacare plans before the deadline, several Republican-dominated states handed control of their health insurance programs to the federal government by default.
Posted on Dec 15, 2012
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A policy set to be enacted by the nation’s largest private employer would deny health insurance to new employees who work fewer than 30 hours a week, effectively shifting costs from the company to you.
Posted on Dec 2, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a Democratic congressman’s resignation and why Joe Scarborough is apologizing to Nate Silver.
Posted on Nov 21, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the latest governor to put a foot down on Obamacare and Chris Christie appears on “Saturday Night Live.”
Posted on Nov 19, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including an update on the “fiscal cliff” meetings between President Obama and congressional leaders, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doing something rational for a change.
Posted on Nov 16, 2012
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Nov 16, 2012
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John Metz is hitting his customers with a 5 percent surcharge to offset the cost of paying for the health care program.
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
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By Clancy Sigal, Reader Supported News —
I’m critical of Obama’s presidency, but my medical emergency convinced me that for Obamacare alone we must re-elect him.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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By The Rev. Madison Shockley — My family survived the Great Recession because of the policies of the Obama administration. I suspect we were not alone in benefiting from one or another of the various relief programs.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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In his latest Op-Ed, the New York Times columnist rips the Republican presidential ticket for a health care plan that would deny potentially millions of Americans coverage in order to save money—all while proposing a trillion-dollar tax cut that would help the wealthiest Americans.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including how Paul Ryan’s 30 percent compares with Mitt Romney’s 47 percent and a Pennsylvania judge decides the fate of the state’s voter ID law for the 2012 election.
Posted on Oct 2, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the latest swing state polls, why Paul Ryan was booed at the annual AARP conference and “Saturday Night Live” pokes fun at Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” comment in prime time.
Posted on Sep 21, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including August fundraising totals for both presidential candidates and Jon Stewart’s latest epic takedown of Fox News.
Posted on Sep 10, 2012
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Daryl Cagle, Cagle Cartoons, MSNBC.com —
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Here’s a chance for all who think Obamacare is a socialist Big Government scheme to put their money where their ideology is: If you truly hate the Affordable Care Act, you must send back any of those rebate checks you receive from your insurance companies thanks to the new law.
Posted on Aug 9, 2012
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Parker Michael Knight (CC BY 2.0)
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President Obama’s new health care law cuts money used to pay for emergency care for undocumented immigrants, a service that some of the nation’s most hard-pressed hospitals have long been required to provide.
Posted on Jul 27, 2012
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Jul 15, 2012
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Jul 12, 2012
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