Medicare for All doesn’t just provide everyone with the care they need, free of charge. It’s also a potent anti-poverty program, reducing poverty by over 20 percent and increasing poor people’s incomes by 29 percent.
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President Trump has ousted John Bolton, who has long been a fierce critic of diplomacy. He had strongly pushed for Trump to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. He also opposed negotiations with North Korea … and he was a key supporter of the attempted U.S.-backed coup in Venezuela and an advocate of regime change in Cuba and Nicaragua. PLEASE WATCH THE INFORMATIVE COMMENTARY AND DISCUSSION!
Krystal Ball Explains the differences between Bernie Sanders' and Andrew Yang's plans to tackle income inequality. Saagar Enjeti talks about Biden's campaign stumbles.
Everywhere she goes, Stacey Abrams is treated like a rock star — or a presidential candidate. I and all my friends wanted her to jump into the presidential race. Instead, she’s doing something more important. She’s creating an apparatus to fight voter suppression across the country, a prize that’s essential to a fair and functioning democracy.
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Intercept D.C. Bureau Chief Ryan Grim weighs in on Justice Democrats support for ousting certain Democrats.
John Oliver explains how Britain’s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, has succeeded – not despite his bumbling persona, but often because of it.
Shortly after her trip to the border, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez joined David Remnick to talk about what she saw in the migrant-detention facilities she visited and why she thinks the Department of Homeland Security needs to be broken up.
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Polls show that a moderate tax on the wealthiest Americans enjoys the support of a majority of Americans — Republicans, Independents, and Democrats. We hope that candidates for President will also recognize the force of the idea and join with most Americans in supporting it. Some ideas are too important for America to be part of only a few candidates’ platforms.
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates told lawmakers at a House committee hearing that the debate over reparations is “a dilemma of inheritance” and called out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Coates told lawmakers that many of the inequalities created by slavery persist today, including in the form of economic and health disparities.
Newly surfaced documents reveal that a now-dead senior Republican strategist who specialized in gerrymandering was secretly behind the Trump administration’s efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
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A New York designer took matters into his own hands after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin delayed replacing Andrew Jackson with Tubman.
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Glenn Greenwald writes about and Interviews Brazil's ex-President Lula da Silva From Prison
Samantha mocks state legislators that are passing abortion laws hoping to upend Roe. vs. Wade.
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As she manages her presidential campaign, Harris is characterizing herself as a reformer. Critics disagree.
The House Intelligence Committee has sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department for Erik Prince. House Democrats are accusing Prince of lying to Congress. According to the Mueller report, Prince attempted to establish a back channel between the incoming Trump administration and Russia.
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How Erik Prince Used the Rise of Trump to Make An Improbable Comeback
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According to the magazine Vice, US troops are now conducting 3,500 exercises and military engagements throughout Africa per year, an average of 10 per day. Many activities described as “advise and assist” are actually indistinguishable from combat by any basic definition.
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Marine Corps Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, commander of U.S. Africa Command, called Africa an "enduring interest" for the U.S.
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In Part 1 of the interview with Ralph Nader, Jimmy and Ralph Nader discuss the myth of the spoiler vote and voter shaming.
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