Redefining the Battlefield
There has been a lot of commentary this week about Ukraine’s surprisingly effective drone attacks on enemy aircraft deep inside Russia and underwater sabotage... Read more.
Playing the Budget Spin Game
It’s Simply Not Adding Up It seems that ignoring studied facts about the effects of Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is not enough. The... Read more.
Trump’s Coal Fetish
When Donald Trump’s in a hole, he digs deeper. As he does with other policies affecting immigration, trade and culture wars, Trump is still — or once... Read more.
Donald Trump as Political Sheriff
By any measure now, Sheriff Donald Trump’s weaponized Justice guns are out of the holster. He is on the hunt for personal foes. Just this week, Donald Trump’s... Read more.
Checking Abortion Pill Facts
A new report by a Right-leaning research group challenging the safety record for mifepristone, the FDA-approved abortion pill, is being used to demand retrospective... Read more.
Hiding the Homeless
There’s a move underway — across political lines — to send the mentally ill, homeless people somewhere else. Essentially, it seems to be a movement... Read more.
Trump: Constitution? Maybe.
Donald Trump apparently thinks the Constitution is optional, useful only when it supports what he wants to do. In an interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press,”... Read more.
Rural Hospitals in Trouble
The Most Vulnerable Are At the Greatest Risk The repeated theme in the uncertainties of federal spending is that Medicaid will have to suffer a huge hit to make... Read more.
Examine Health Care Fraud
The Further Punishment of Poverty The entirety of Republican attacks on Obamacare, Medicare and Medicaid, which together underwrite health services for otherwise... Read more.
‘Health’ Without Health Workers
The Trump administration seems fixated on ruining what we have known as health systems. Lured variously by the size of the spending on health services, the idea... Read more.