Protecting their reputations so Ivanka and Jared can survive the Trump administration’s already toxic legacy is really what’s going on.
The Great Flood
Chris Hedges gives a grim assessment of where our civilization is heading in context of the Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma.
Trump Is Everything the Founding Fathers Feared in a President
The widening gap between power & values produced President Donald Trump, elected to promote raw power above all, the final fall of the founders’ presidency.
The Sickness of American Health care – Media distorts real problem
Media fixation on a small fraction of America’s patients distorts health care system’s real problems that need addressing.
Factchecking the Factcheckers including those that lean left
The ACA has failed to control costs so to tell readers otherwise comes across less as factchecking than as a partisan defense of the ACA.
No, Obamacare Has Not Reduced Premium Inflation
Many insist that the rate at which employer-sponsored premiums have grown has slowed dramatically since passage of the Obamacare. It’s not true.
Meet human needs? Nah, let’s play tea party games
The Tea Party cancer so permeates some on the Right-Wing fringe that even a natural catastrophe is not enough to shake them completely loose of the scourge.
Boomtown, Flood Town
Climate change will bring more frequent and fierce rainstorms to cities like Houston. Unchecked development remains a priority in the famously un-zoned city
Why CEOs are turning on Donald Trump
Donald Trump continues to do all that is necessary to lose more and more of his base. CEOs turning on Donald Trump are the latest self-inflicting would.
What Trump and His Team Have Wrecked So Far
While distracting ourselves with the latest tweet and silly statements, Donald Trump and his team are decimating dismantling all that we hold dear.