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At CommonDreams, Jake Johnson writes—U.S. Says No Money for Social Programs, But '$700 Billion to Kill People? Yeah That We Have':…

Hurricane Maria…

A hunger to know and create is a common theme in literature and mythology, but it's been balanced over thousands of years with messages which posit the pursuit of knowledge and the power of change as the destroyer of paradise. In a lot of stories, curiosity…

New Trump EPA administrator Scott Pruitt had two choices after hurricanes Harvey and Irma. He could rise to the challenges of his office, or he could tool around the country pooh-poohing people who asked about climate change, giving friendly interviews to…

The spokesman for Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, issued a jazzy but meaningless statement Tuesday responding to reports that the FBI obtained two separate warrants to wiretap Manafort before, during, and after the 2016 election. CBS…

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Remember back in March when then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer tried to sell us on the notion that Paul Manafort "played a very limited role" in the Trump campaign, for which Manafort served as chairman?…

The White House and House Speaker Paul Ryan didn't want a bipartisan health care effort interfering with their last-ditch push to strip health care coverage from millions of Americans, so they blackballed it. Politico writes:…

Paul Manafort was under surveillance by the FISA court before, during, and after his six months as Donald Trump’s campaign chairman. That wasn’t because President Obama both hated Donald Trump and somehow knew that Manafort would sign onto the Trump…

Facing imminent deportation despite having no criminal record and following ICE’s rules to check in, Leonor Garcia went into sanctuary in a Cleveland Heights, Ohio, church one week ago. It wasn’t an easy choice for Garcia to make: after her husband…

Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is What if we talked about white poverty the way we talk about black poverty?…

A powerful earthquake, tentatively fixed at a magnitude of 7.1, has hit near Mexico City. The epicenter appears to be southeast of the capital near Raboso. …

A group of ten protesters—including Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva, Illinois Congressman Luis Gutiérrez, New York Congressman Rep. Adriano Espaillat, and New York City Council President Melissa Mark-Viverito—were among the immigrant rights…

Donald Trump and Mike Pence are revved up for repeal and have been working the phones to get the 50 Senate votes necessary so Pence can cast the tie-breaker, according to Tuesday's traveling press pool report.…

Ten governors—Democratic, Republican, and independent—have written to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell asking him not to hold a vote on Graham-Cassidy, the latest Republican effort to gut health coverage, and instead "renew support for bipartisan…

The historic civil rights organization NAACP has joined in the legal action against Donald Trump over his cowardly decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, “alleging that Trump violated due process, the equal protection…

When you take the position of press secretary in the Trump White House, the first thing they teach you is highly selective editing. That’s how you can get something like this:…

The Senate Intelligence Committee canceled a meeting Tuesday with Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, because he too suffers from the same loose-lips syndrome that’s been afflicting all of Trump’s attorneys.…

In its ongoing effort to replace the Statue of Liberty with a racist border wall as the symbol of the United States, The New York Times reports that the Trump administration commissioned a study from the Department of Health and Human Services “to…

Thanks to Jimmy Kimmel, we can see just what a liar Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy is. Cassidy talked big to Kimmel:…

One of the most obviously cruel parts of the new Cassidy-Graham health care repeal bill is that it would take money away from America's neediest by slashing federal Medicaid spending nationwide. The measure not only proposes deeper cuts to the program than…

Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations was highlighted—in the most bizarre sense of the word—by his direct threat to North Korea.…

The radicals over at the American Heart Association—and 15 other patient and provider groups—are opposing the Republican Graham-Cassidy health care bill, because “Affordable, adequate care is vital to the patients we represent. This legislation fails…

You may have hurricane fatigue, but nature, she doesn’t care. Two more waves of low pressure coming off the warm ivory coast of Africa into the tropical Atlantic earlier this month have given rise to two new Cape Verde style storms. One of them, Maria,…

To state the obvious, I am not saying that we shouldn't care about white poverty or that poor whites haven't had to endure their share of shaming from a punitive culture that uses wealth to determine the value of a human being (a source of condescension, it's…

Today is the day that Donald Trump has to make the ultimate sacrifice. He must stand in front of cheap 12 inch marble tiles at the United Nations to tell other world leaders that they need to be like Trump.…

If Republicans can ram their latest assault on health care through the Senate, the House will face a take-it-or-leave-it situation, since the Senate’s ability to pass a bill with just 51 votes ends on September 30. But even though the House had trouble…

Donald Trump and the Republicans are so fixated on blowing up everything that Barack Obama touched, that they don’t give any thought to how many people are caught in the explosion. While it may have seemed that their efforts to annihilate the American…

Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy’s name is on the latest Republican attempt to strip health coverage from millions of people by repealing Obamacare. If you’re thinking that means Louisiana might somehow be protected from the worst Graham-Cassidy has to offer,…

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