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Nadler To The Rescue?
(Full disclosure: Jerry Nadler and I were on the same high-school debate team and were friends at a that time, but we haven’t spoken in decades.) In announcing that the House Judiciary Committee is effectively commencing an impeachment inquiry, Committee Chair Jerry...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) Real Change Takes Voices And Votes As highly engaged citizens, you know that we live in a time of great inequality and injustice. The White House and Fox News want to sow fear in each of us and divide us because of the color...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Andy Spears To Save Rural Hospitals, Pass Medicare For All Medicare for All is a popular idea — 70 percent of Americans say they support it, including 52 percent of Republicans. Why? Because in red and blue states alike, they see the costs of a...
To Save Rural Hospitals, Pass Medicare For All
Medicare for All is a popular idea — 70 percent of Americans say they support it, including 52 percent of Republicans. Why? Because in red and blue states alike, they see the costs of a market-driven system that values profit over patients. There’s perhaps no state in...
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller Testifies on Capitol Hill
After the questions and answers are complete, then what? Former special counsel Robert Mueller will testify before Congress in a pair of public hearings on Wednesday as he answers questions from lawmakers in both major parties who are eager to hear him say out...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati Opioid CEOs Are Our Nation’s Real Druglords Mexican druglord Joaquín Guzmán Loera was just sentenced to life in prison. The drug cartel he ruled, a jury determined this past February, dumped “hundreds of tons of drugs to the United...
Opioid CEOs Are Our Nation's Real Druglords
One druglord gets life behind bars, the other retires into luxury. Guess which one wreaked more havoc.
The Climate Mood Is Grim, Folks
I listen to a lot of very heavy Doom Metal music, and let me tell you - it feels a lot more hopeful than what our most insightful climate writers have to say right now. Their mood is grim, folks. They fear the game of life is up. But there is one thing that unites...
Let's Celebrate Man On the Moon Day
We’ve been celebrating Columbus Day as a national holiday for over 80 years now. But if we truly want to celebrate the discovery of a “new world,” we’d reevaluate this annual ritual and start celebrating another historic journey instead — one we could start marking...
Washington Vs. The Squad
You’ve heard the cliche: If you’re taking heat from “both sides,” you must be doing something right. It’s dubious advice, but it fits pretty well for “the Squad” — the progressive first-year Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan...
