The president’s plan does little but add another battering ram to his ongoing economic war against America’s allies.
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The Abortion Generation Gap
A new poll from PRRI has found wide generational gaps on issues of abortion, reproductive health, and sexual assault. “As this younger generation continues to flex its political muscles—as we saw in the response to the Parkland shooting—they could also reshape the national conversation on women’s health issues,” said PRRI CEO Robert P. Jones in […]
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Privatizing Health Care for Veterans Doesn’t Add Up
Medicaid privatization in Kansas and Iowa show why outsourcing the VA would have tragic, even fatal, consequences.
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Studies Show Private-Sector Providers Are Not Ready to Care for Veterans
As Congress moves ahead with plans to outsource more and more veteran health care to the private sector, three high-profile studies should urge lawmakers to pump the brakes. The studies, published in recent weeks by RAND Corporation, Federal Practitioner, and the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, spotlight serious flaws in private-sector veterans’ care […]
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Donald Trump Is No Friend of a Better NAFTA
We do need to repair or replace what’s wrong with the mother of bad trade deals. But don’t be fooled by Trump’s posturing.
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The Overlooked Electoral Power of Voters with Disabilities
A new national poll of voters with disabilities released this week spotlights a dramatic shift in their political leanings toward Democrats. Numbering in the tens of millions, voters in the disability community boast a huge political and electoral power that could prove decisive in this year’s midterms. Yet for a group with such potentially significant […]
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No Big-Game Hunting at Justice
How federal prosecutors let major white-collar criminals off the hook and stick shareholders with the costs of corporate crime
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Congress Looks to Weaken the Americans with Disabilities Act
No area is safe from plunder in the Trump era, even decades-old laws as seemingly untouchable as the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Congress is expected to vote on the ADA Education and Reform Act this week (H.R. 620), which has already passed the House Judiciary Committee. Don’t be fooled by the “reform” in […]
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The Full Employment Solution
Truly fixing the American economy requires full employment, as Franklin Roosevelt proposed 74 years ago. And that can’t be done through the private sector alone.
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The Congressional Review Act: A Damage Assessment
How Trump’s Republicans have used an obscure Gingrich-era law to eviscerate health, safety, labor, environmental, and financial protections
