Trumpcare makes single-payer health insurance sound great again
Now the Senate has a zombie Trumpcare bill too. Back in March, you may recall, Speaker Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., called off a showdown vote on the House effort to "repeal...
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Obamacare wins again as GOP adds to its list of stalled legislation
After Republicans spectacularly failed to gather enough votes to repeal and replace Obamacare, President Donald Trump should consider changing his slogan from "Make America Great Again" to "Hey, we tried."...
How to be a proper ‘elitist’ in the age of Trump
"Elitist," as Time magazine culture critic William A. Henry III observed in his 1994 book "In Defense of Elitism," has begun to rival, if not outstrip, "racist" as the "foremost...
Trump’s voter fraud panel: A solution looking for a problem
It is hard to be rebuffed more soundly than President Donald Trump's "election integrity" commission — or, as he called it, the "very distinguished voter fraud panel" — has been...
One politician’s answer to opioid overdosers: Let ’em die
Americans often complain that Washington debates seem to be far removed from the lives of real people. But Washington's health care debate and the nation's opioid crisis became quite real...
Celebrate the America we are trying to be
What to you is the Fourth of July? The mere mention of it brings forth fond memories of fireworks, barbecue, potato salad and my dad's passing down to me the...
President Trump, your insecurities are showing — again
It started out like any other normal day in the White House. President Donald Trump had a big energy policy speech to deliver. He had a meeting to attend with...
What Republicans love about their health care plan has nothing to do with health care
Democrats these days must feel like Michael Dukakis, as famously played by Jon Lovitz in a debate with then-Vice President George H.W. Bush on "Saturday Night Live," when he said,...
Memo to the Democrats: Don’t forget the ‘forgotten’
As offensive as it may sound to today's sensitive ears, it was only 11 years ago that a young and rising United States senator wrote the following about immigration: "When...
Conspiracy theories fail to salvage Bill Cosby’s legacy
Sometimes the impact of a man is measured by the outlandishness of the conspiracy theories that pop up to explain his sudden downfall. So many wild conspiracy theories have popped...