The Trump campaign and Republicans wasted no time going on the attack against Vice President Harris on Sunday after President Biden backed her as the party’s next nominee upon ending his own 2024 bid.
Republicans used their convention this week to signal how they would go after Harris should she replace Biden atop the ticket, and on Sunday the party followed through, bashing Harris for her handling of the root causes of migration, tying her to the Biden administration’s handli...
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Preventive care is under threat: PrEP now or pay later
A long-awaited court decision has finally arrived, with disturbing health implications: The ruling exempts select employers from fully covering a daily pill that can prevent a person’s chances of getting HIV by up to 99 percent.
But the effects of the Braidwood Management v. Becerra case extend beyond HIV care. The case could invalidate a startling range of free preventative services, and lead to a big jump in patient’s payments for cancer screenings, preventive drugs for hear...
Biden campaign reiterates president will be nominee in post-RNC memo
The Biden campaign reiterated in a new memo following the Republican National Convention that the president will be the Democratic nominee, even as the party remains embroiled in disagreement about the path forward. The memo also targeted Project 2025, which Donald Trump has disavowed.
“Joe Biden has made it more than clear: he’s in this race and he’s in it to win it. Moreover, he’s the presumptive nominee, there is no plan for an alternative nominee,”...
In reversal from 2016, GOP projects unity while Democrats scramble
MILWAUKEE — Republicans find themselves in a somewhat unusual position: fully in sync, while Democrats hash out a major internal disagreement in public.
It’s been a remarkable split-screen playing out this week. Republicans are gathered in Wisconsin, unified and energized behind former President Trump’s candidacy, while Democrats are in open disagreement over whether President Biden should remain atop the ticket in November.
On Tuesday, Trump’s fiercest primary rival...
Mindfulness, meditation can help calm American political anger
Twelve years ago, before the MAGA movement emerged on the right and the streets erupted in progressive protest from the left, we noticed something troubling in Congress: Our colleagues and constituents were getting angrier.
We saw it in the flushed faces at our town halls. We heard it in expletive-laden phone calls opposing the Affordable Care Act. We felt its toll in the increasing turnover of our burnt-out, battle-fatigued campaign workers. Most of all, we sensed it in the c...
JD Vance’s views on health care: What to know
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who was tapped as former President Trump's running mate Monday, has been in the Senate for less than two years but has staked out health care positions that both buck his party and toe the GOP line.
Vance is a Yale-educated venture capitalist, but rode the wave of Trump-era populism to a Senate seat. Like most Republicans, he is strongly anti-abortion, opposes gender-affirming care and wants to exclude "Dreamer" immigrants from federal health programs. ...
Bet on Nancy Pelosi to show Joe Biden the door
Nearly 50 years ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. Now, another presidency is in crisis.
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has signaled to her colleagues in Washington and beyond that doing nothing about President Joe Biden’s obvious mental acuity decline is not an acceptable course of action. The irony of this situation is that Pelosi is nearly three years older than Biden.
Pelosi watched as Biden ran for political cover to t...
Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity is more limited than it appears
The Supreme Court’s new presidential immunity rule, announced in Trump v. United States, seems on its face to cut against the grain of the court’s recent jurisprudence.
This court has deliberately curtailed executive power, has shown a strong preference to decide only questions before it and no more, and has strong institutionalist and textualist leanings. A new, broad presidential immunity rule, which is how many commentators understand its ruling in the Trump case, seems in...
To win, Biden and Democrats must go all-in against Trumpism
As President Biden fights to stay in the race for a second term, his message needs to change. He should not just run to keep Donald Trump out of the White House — he should run to purge Trumpism from Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Biden should push all his chips to the center of the table and prove his mettle by leading a counterrevolution against the MAGA horde.
As we all know by now, most voters are unhappy with the federal government and democrac...
The real reason drug costs are so high in America
Earlier this month, President Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) published an oped about “the outrageous prices that the pharmaceutical industry charges the American people for prescription drugs.” It is the latest step in Sanders's ongoing campaign about drug prices.
In June, Sanders, who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, announced that Lars Jorgensen, chief executive officer of Novo Nordisk, one of the world’s largest pharmaceu...