All Views Articles for 2017-06-24

Saturday, June 24, 2017
Mary Sweeters
Not Even Our National Monuments Are Safe in Trump’s America
In the fall of 2002, I spent nearly two weeks backpacking in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah. Fifteen years later, that experience continues to have a lasting impact on...
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Sophie Ota
Now Women Know Why the Senate Wrote Their Health Care Bill in Secret
Planned Parenthood is under attack like never before . After weeks of secret negotiations behind closed doors , Senator Mitch McConnell and his exclusively-male health care working group just...
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Tim Koechlin
From Bad to Worse: The GOP Assault on the Nation's Health and Wellbeing
It's not that complicated to see just how cruel and destructive the Republicans have decided to be
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John Atcheson
Party of Disaster: Explaining the Republican Train Wreck
OK, let’s not be fair and balanced. Let’s be honest. And let’s not allow ourselves to start thinking of these last six months as anything like “normal.” Let’s face it, the Republican Congress and the...
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Steven Harper
Mueller v. Trump: The Ultimate Lawsuit
Odds are that Trump will eventually fire special counsel Robert Mueller. Lawyer Steven Harper games out what would happen next.
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Robert Reich
The Secret Republican Plan to Unravel Medicaid
Bad enough that the Republican Senate bill would repeal much of the Affordable Care Act. Even worse, it unravels the Medicaid Act of 1965 – which, even before Obamacare, provided health insurance to...
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Christopher Brauchli
When the Violence Comes Around...
What’s all the shootin’ for? — George Michael Cohan, The Tavern It was one of nine mass shootings that occurred that week. It might have surprised some people to see how much publicity it got. None...
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Garrett Jennings
Trump's Infrastructure Plan: A Corporate Con by a Corporate Conman
For over a century, big corporations have been rewriting the Constitution to serve their interests. It is now time for organized people to bring that era to an end.
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