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,...
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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...
President couldn’t issue meaningful McCain statement because The Media is too mean, says ex-adviser
Rather than issue the typical memorial statement that most human U.S. presidents have issued following the death of political opponents, current President Donald Trump instead apparently nixed a proposed message memorializing Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Instead, he tweeted a brief comment on Saturday evening that said basically nothing at all, raised the White House flags back from half-staff, and went back to whining about the media.
My deepest sympathies and res...
The White House plan: Just keep putting Trump on stage
Hours after Donald Trump’s onetime personal lawyer admitted he was pushed by his client to break the law and his 2016 campaign chairman was found guilty of tax and bank fraud, the president too...
Trump admits he’s violating the First Amendment on Twitter
Last week, President Donald Trump revoked former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance — the White House claims that he did so because of Brennan’s “erratic conduct.” On Tuesday morning, however, Trump sent a tweet essentially admitting that “erratic conduct,” in this instance, is a euphemism for “criticized Trump.”
Even James Clapper has admonished John Brennan for having gone totally off the rails....
Trump’s promised border wall could waste billions of dollars, government watchdog finds
The Trump administration could waste billions of dollars building a wall on the United States’ southern border, one of President Trump’s cornerstone campaign promises. According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) out Monday, the administration has failed to consider costly factors like varying terrain and land ownership in the area.
The report also found that Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), which is tasked with building the wall, selected lo...