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Inside the Bloodbath at the NIH

Gregg Gonsalves The Nation
Sources say that a climate of fear has spread throughout the agency as the Trump administration takes a hatchet to its core functions.

Tidbits – Dec.19 – Reader Comments: Pardon Leonard Peltier; Fighting Deportations; Members of Congress Descendants of Rich Slaveholders; Readers Debate: Liberation in Syria; Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing– Virtual Training; More…

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Reader Comments: Pardon Leonard Peltier; Trump Does Not Have Mandate; Fighting Deportations; Members of Congress Descendants of Rich Slaveholders; Readers Debate: Liberation in Syria; Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing-- Virtual Training; more....

Tidbits – Dec.12 – Reader Comments: Trump Plan – End Citizenship, Mass Deportations; It Was Close Election; Health and Death As Profit Industry – $1.39 Trillion in Profits; Syria – a Caution; New Resource – Elections and Health Policy; Take Action;

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Reader Comments: Trump Plan - End Citizenship, Mass Deportations; It Was Close Election; Health and Death as Profit Industry - $1.39 Trillion in Profits; Syria - A Caution; New Resource - Elections and Health Policy; Take Action

Dr. Oz and the Stealth Destruction of Medicare

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
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. During the campaign, Trump and his surrogates went out of their way to claim that they had no plans to cut Medicare.

Moving Past Neoliberalism Is a Policy Project

Matt Stoller, David Dayen The American Prospect
In order to test whether improving people’s lives can convince them to support Democrats, you have to, well, improve people’s lives. Deepak Bhargava, Shahrzad Shams, and Harry Hanbury, in a piece called “The Death of ‘Deliverism,’” argued otherwise.
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