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Senate Health Bill Would Leave 22 Million More Uninsured, C.B.O. Says
The figure released by the Congressional Budget Office is only slightly lower than the 23 million more uninsured under the House version of the legislation.
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McConnell to delay the vote until after recess
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will delay the vote on the Republican leadership's health care bill until after the July 4 recess.
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Missouri lawmaker explains chicken beheading video
State Rep. Mike Moon of Ash Grove said Monday, June 26, 2017, he meant to show his work as a farmer who is frustrated by the delays in the legislative process. He did not intend the perceived comparison of chicken slaughter to abortion. By Joe Robertson.
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Democrats Don't Think Trumpcare Is Dead
There could still be a vote soon on Senate GOP legislation to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, Democrats warned on Tuesday.
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Why are 13 men in charge of healthcare for all American women?
A decade or two ago, the notion that 13 men would be plotting the fate of American women’s healthcare behind closed doors, that they would delight in defunding the women’s health organization Planned Parenthood and impeding healthcare access for millions of American women, would have felt like the politics of a bygone era.
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Trump Threatens to Tax the Internet Because He’s Mad at Jeff Bezos
There is no such thing as “Internet taxes.”
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Who Stopped California's Single-Payer Plan?
Single payer in California faces a political obstacle, not an economic one. By Jason Rhode.
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The NRA finds new ways to stoke the fires of the culture war
As Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum noted, the NRA has clearly evolved from being an organization interested in the rights of gun owners, and become “a purveyor of wholesale culture war zealotry.” This video is powerful evidence of this: NRA members aren’t told to worry about legislation; they’re told to direct their fears at “comedy shows” and liberals who “terrorize the law-abiding.” At the root of NRA propaganda in recent years is an unhealthy dose of paranoia and cultural resentment, and the byproduct is bizarre videos like the one the group released this week.
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''Welfare Reform'' Is Pushing Women Into Unwaged Work -- It's Time to Change That
Welfare reform briefly became a hot topic on the campaign trail last year when Hillary Clinton was criticized for supporting the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, signed into law with great fanfare by President Bill Clinton, who famously declared that the law would "end welfare as we know it." The law did precisely that, turning the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program into the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant, which came along with stringent requirements for the people, most of them women, who received it. Since that time, extreme poverty has spiked in the country, and the sha
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The US government is removing scientific data from the Internet
At Ars Technica Live, we talked to Lindsey Dillon, who decided to do something about it.
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Talent Market: The Libertarian Headhunting Firm Serving the Koch Network and the Bradley Foundation
Looking for a job with the billionaire Koch Brothers? Want to help the Bradley Foundation build right-wing "infrastructure" nationwide to turn red states blue? Look no further than "Talent Market" the nonprofit head hunting firm that claims to bring "talent and liberty together to make the world a better place." Talent Market's list of clients is a "who's who" of the far right, including the Koch's Americans for Prosperity Foundation, the American Legislative Exchange Council and the Ayn Rand Institute. Current job openings advertised on the website include openings at the Charles Koch Institute, the Charles Koch Foundation, the Mackinac Ce
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Present at the Destruction: How Rex Tillerson Is Wrecking the State Department
I worked in Foggy Bottom for 6 years. I’ve never seen anything like this.
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John Oliver Exposes The Right-Wing Media Empire Taking Over Your Local News
As John Oliver pointed out on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group is in the process of buying Tribune Media, a move that would give it more than 200 stations. He said the combined evening news viewership once the deal is complete would average 2.2 million people per night “It’s more than any current primetime show on Fox News including ‘Five Idiots Have The Most Intolerable Dinner Party Ever’ and ’That Guy From College Everyone Hated Has A Talk Show Now With Tucker Carlson,’” he said.
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N.J. Gov. Christie spotted on beach closed by government shutdown
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was spotted soaking up the sun on a beach off-limits to the public during the state's government shutdown.
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America’s Future Is Texas
With right-wing zealots taking over the legislature even as the state’s demographics shift leftward, Texas has become the nation’s bellwether. By Lawrence Wright.
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Missouri Votes to Let Employers Fire People Who Use Birth Control
A new Missouri bill would target abortion providers and sanction employment and housing discrimination against people who use birth control or have an abortion. Blessed be the fruit. By Sejal Singh. (June 21, 2017)
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Kentucky gives blessing to Bible classes in public schools
Watchdog groups have vowed to make sure Bible classes in Kentucky public schools don’t go from teaching to preaching. By Corky Siemaszko. (June 28, 2017)
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Rauner vetoes budget in Illinois showdown
The Illinois Senate already voted to override the veto and the House is expected to follow suit this week. Lawmakers say it’s beyond late for more bickering with Illinois having already entered its third fiscal year without a budget. Legislators – including 15 Republicans in the House who broke from the governor – say they want to end a crisis that turned Illinois into a national disgrace, drew the intervention of a federal judge, sent university enrollments plummeting, threatened to close K-12 schools in the fall and resulted in a staggering eight bond rating downgrades.
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Opinion | Memories of a Real ‘Witch Hunt’
My father was hounded to his death by anti-Communist zealots. The F.B.I.’s Russia investigation is nothing compared to what he endured.
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18 States Sue Betsy DeVos Over Student Loan Protections
The education secretary froze rules that helped borrowers who had attended bankrupt for-profit colleges. The states aim to lift the freeze.
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