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The great X-odus

The TV doctor’s scams and fake cures are the least of what makes him so dangerous as Trump’s appointee to head Medicare and Medicaid.

The zeal that marks rising authoritarian movements makes resistance an apt term for the position that half of Americans find themselves in and more if one acknowledges that issue by issue many Trump voters disagree with the Republican Platform.

The private prison lobby has been quietly pushing a drastic expansion of ICE’s surveillance apparatus. Trump’s reelection may be the final step.

The president-elect's "ability to escape prosecution does not retroactively validate his illegal, unconstitutional and democracy-destroying activities," said one critic.

Nearly a quarter of working-age adults have insurance that leaves them underinsured.

Much of the post-election Democratic Party fretting has appropriately centered on the degree to which it has lost the presumption of being the party of the working class. One solution: "Maybe Democrats have to embrace a Sanders-style disruption."

Trump’s DNI pick and I were both in Damascus in the winter of 2017 to meet with the dictator of Syria. We came away with very different takes

What Can You Expect from a War Criminal? (1959), The Battle of Seattle’s Unexpected Outcome (1999), We’re Not Raw Material, We’re Human Beings! (1964), A Brave Doctor Helps Lead the Way (1969)

COP 29's final offer is “a drop in the ocean compared to what is needed” for developing countries to deal with the effects of climate change.