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When Hospital Workers Can’t Afford Health Care
3 Mar 2013 … Nearly one-fifth of large companies are raising the cost of health insurance by only offering high-deductible “catastrophic” plans to employees. Continue reading
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The Failed Promise of “Objective” Political Reporting
8 Aug 2020 … What if the mainstream, reality-based media armed its audience with facts as emphatically and effectively as Fox News arms its audience with misinformation? What if the New York Times aggressively advocated for the truth, rather than just putting it out Continue reading
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An Insurrection and a Second Impeachment
1 Jan 2021 … A week ago, our Capitol was overrun by insurgents seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. In their fury, they murdered a Capitol Police officer and came within a hair’s breadth of getting their hands on our Continue reading
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The Pandemic Worsens, Dr. Atlas Shrugs and Biden Acts
11 Nov 2020 … The coronavirus did not stop for the election. It intensified. COVID-19 deaths in America now exceed 235,000 and are increasing at the rate of a 9/11 attack every three days. But help is on the horizon. Continue reading
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Trump’s Ongoing Effort to Stamp Out the USPS
8 Aug 2020 … What appears to be going on in Trump’s tweets is an attempt to rig the mechanics of the election to enable him to win by manipulating the ballots and counting. This, in turn, is leading to an attack on the Continue reading
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Barr Doubles Down
7 Jul 2020 … Attorney General William Barr will testify before the House Judiciary Committee tomorrow for the first time. The Attorney General of the United States is, of course, not the president’s lawyer. The AG is supposed to be the attorney for the Continue reading
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Incitement and the First Amendment
1 Jan 2021 … The feral mob brandished white supremacist and nazi flags that they held as they listened to Trump’s words and carried their odious standards into the Capitol building. These weren’t protestors exercising their constitutional rights. This was, as Shakespeare put it, Continue reading
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Why Does Essential Work Pay So Little and Cost So Much?
7 Jul 2020 … The pandemic has exposed certain deep and unexamined assumptions about the nature and value of work in the United States. Continue reading
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The Other Election
11 Nov 2020 … Biden had intended to make a victory speech, but the media seems oddly reluctant to call the election. That reluctance is odd enough that people are speculating as to why, suggesting that media administrators are afraid of the president’s fury Continue reading
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The American Rescue Plan May Be the Most Crucial Legislation in Decades
3 Mar 2021 … It is hard to overestimate the importance of this measure both for the present moment and as a sign of the direction in which the Democrats in charge of the United States hope to take the nation. Continue reading