Richard Eskow
Richard (RJ) Eskow is Senior Advisor for Health and Economic Justice at Social Security Works and the host of The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow on Free Speech TV. Follow him on Twitter: @rjeskow
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Views Wednesday, April 10, 2019 Medicare For All: Accept No Substitutes Today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced the Medicare for All Act of 2019 . A companion bill of the same name has already been introduced in the House by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA). That’s good news for the country. Unfortunately, these bills are facing opposition from what, for some people,... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 31, 2019 Democrats Shouldn’t Abandon Medicare for All Over a Misleading Survey David Leonhardt of the New York Times has highlighted a survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation that, if true, would suggest that Medicare for All is not nearly as popular as initial polling would suggest. Based on this survey’s results, Leonhardt concludes that Democrats who support the idea are... Read more |
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Views Thursday, December 06, 2018 Don’t Let the Trump Administration Corporatize Medicare The Trump administration is engaged in a massive deception about Medicare Advantage plans, those commercial insurance plans that contract with the government to offer Medicare benefits. These plans are offered as an alternative to traditional Medicare, the public plan administered by the government... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 20, 2018 Wall Street Is Leading the Attack on Pelosi—Steny Hoyer Is the Real Barrier to the Progressive Agenda It’s impossible to understand the Democratic rebellion against Nancy Pelosi without understanding the way power works in the House of Representatives. To understand the self-serving men behind this rebellion, heed the words of the late screenwriter William Goldman: Follow the money. There is... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 30, 2018 An Economy in the Fast Lane – With No Brakes Donald Trump has been bragging about the economy a lot lately. He says the United States is now the “ economic envy ” of the world. Unfortunately, Trump is once again trying to reshape reality to fit his own delusions. Reality is refusing to cooperate. It’s true the U.S. economy is in the fast lane... Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 22, 2018 Geithner's Grift, Paydays, and Democratic Drift What does it mean when Timothy Geithner, Barack Obama’s bro-ish and apparently self-satisfied former Secretary of the Treasury, becomes president of a company that hoodwinks the victims of the financial system he helped rescue? If you care about economic justice, or if you want the Democratic Party... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 28, 2018 How to Cover a Political Revolution “RED ALERT,” read the New York Post’s headline after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory over high-ranking Democratic incumbent Joe Crowley. They competed in the Democratic primary for New York’s 14 th congressional district, which covers parts of Queens and The Bronx. The subhead read: “Young... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 26, 2018 For Immigrant Children, Empathy Is Not Enough There’s no “ civil ” way to say it: The Trump administration is torturing immigrant children. A liberal television personality wept openly for these children a few days ago, and I’m glad she did. But it’s important to remember that these terrible events reflect more than the profoundly amoral... Read more |
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Views Saturday, June 23, 2018 A Movement Emerges to Free Former Students from Crushing Loan Debts Every so often, perhaps once or twice in a person’s lifetime, the trajectory of society changes. It happened in the 1930s, when the country found a new sense of shared purpose as it rebuilt itself under the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt. It happened after World War II, when the era of... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 11, 2018 “Establishment Wins” Are Bad for Democrats – and the Country Diehard science-fiction fans will remember the mystical mantra at the heart of the 21 st -century “Battlestar Galactica” reboot: “All this has happened before and will happen again.” Democratic Party leaders and members of the mainstream media should keep that sentence in mind during the 2018 and... Read more |