by Rachel Hodes | Aug 1, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Immigration
As I stepped inside the Cannon House Office Building on a Tuesday in July, I felt like I was taking a step towards a more just world. The night before, when I told my mother I planned to participate in a “Never Again” protest as part of #JewsAgainstICE, she had one...
by Lyn Carver | Jul 29, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Health
Lyn Carver, a member of Down Home North Carolina and People's Action, shared this testimony on Capitol Hill in a press conference with diabetic patients and progressive lawmakers to demand lower prices for prescription drugs. I find myself very grateful that I’m a...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jul 29, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Politics
(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...
by Andy Spears | Jul 25, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Health
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...
by Jon Queally | Jul 24, 2019 | Blog, Featured
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...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Health, Inequality, Opioid Crisis
Last week didn’t go so well for the Mexican druglord Joaquín Guzmán Loera. A federal district court sentenced the notorious “El Chapo” to life in prison. The 62-year-old will almost certainly, notes the New York Times, be “spending the rest of his life behind bars.”...
