With the midterm elections fast approaching, Donald Trump has picked up a pen to help the party. In an op-ed published today in USA Today the president attacks a Democratic healthcare plan, claims they want to erase the US’s borders, and threatens that a Democratic victory ...
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All the president’s lies about Medicare for All
President Donald Trump took a break from Twitter Wednesday to rail against Medicare for All in a falsehood-ridden op-ed for USA Today, despite promising voters on the campaign trail in 2016 that health care for all is “just human decency.”
The op-ed, which editors clearly didn’t bother to fact-check, contained dozens of lies about the health care proposal for which many Democrats have advocated over the past two years. The plan has various interpretations, depending on which Democr...
Donald Trump slams Democrats’ health care proposal in USA Today op-ed
U.S. President Donald Trump is stepping up his attack on Democrats over a health care proposal called Medicare for All, claiming it "would end Medicare as we know it and take away benefits that seniors have paid for their entire lives."
Why Susan Collins is voting for Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court
Senator Susan Collins, the Republican from Maine, explained why she would support Brett Kavanaugh on the Senate floor Friday afternoon, essentially guaranteeing he will be the US’s next Supreme Court justice.
Collins, a moderate Republican who did not suppor...
Former UN chief Ban Ki-moon: US health care system is ‘politically wrong, morally wrong’
Failing to provide health care to 29.3 million people is “unethical” and “politically wrong, morally wrong,” said former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in an interview with the Guardian.
The U.S. is the only wealthy country without universal coverage — and Ban faults “powerful” interest groups within the pharmaceutical, hospitals, and doctors sector.
“Here, the political interest groups are so, so powerful,” Ban said. “Even president, Congress,...
The White House’s website deleted the whole archive of its daily newsletters
American citizens can get daily updates on the government directly from the White House’s “1600 Daily” newsletter, which was launched in March 2017. The newsletter shares daily updates from the White House, together with a feed ...
The Kavanaugh Senate confirmation fight is actually the first race of the midterms
Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a US Supreme Court justice should be a shoe-in, but lobbying groups are still spending millions trying to convince American voters to support or oppose him.
The Senate remains controlled by the Republicans, who hold a 51-49 margin as...
How Trump built an invisible wall around America
Thanks to a whirlwind of executive orders, policy adjustments, and subtle bureaucratic changes, US immigration policy is looking more and more like the xenophobic 1920s. Back then, the US barred Asians, as well as Italians, Greeks, and people from Eastern Europe. This ti...
John McCain helped build a country that no longer exists
Arizona senator John McCain—scion of Navy brass, flyboy turned Vietnam war hero and tireless defender of American global leadership—died on Saturday (August 25) after a year of t...
After John McCain’s death, the White House flag is flying at full mast
The American flag atop the White House was flying on the top of its mast on Monday morning after the death of Arizona senator John McCain, putting the presidential residence at odds with many other federal buildings in the United States.
The senator died on Aug. 2...
