All Views Articles for 2017-06-26
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Ralph Nader Driverless Cars: Hype, Hubris and Distractions The hype and unsubstantiated hope behind the self-driving car movement continues unabated, distracting from addressing necessities of old “mobilities” such as inadequate public transit and upgrading... Read more |
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Andrew Cohen Justice Kennedy Is the Bulwark Against a Conservative Counterrevolution Should he leave the Supreme Court anytime soon, Kennedy’s successor is likely to eliminate the judicial branch as an effective check-and-balance on partisan power. Read more |
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Nancy Altman, Linda Benesch The Overlooked Trumpcare Threat: A Medicare Time Bomb Trump’s broken promises on Medicaid and Social Security are plain to see. But the GOP health care bill also sets up the destruction of Medicare. Read more |
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Heather Timmons The Word "Women" Literally Never Appears in the US Senate’s 142-Page Healthcare Bill Women have babies. If they didn’t, first the economy would collapse, and then the species would die out. But because they do, from their late teens to their early forties, women have higher health-... Read more |
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Robert Reich Trumpcare Truth: A Gift to the 1% and a Kick to the Sick and Poor The Senate’s bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act is not a healthcare bill. It’s a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, paid for by a dramatic reduction in healthcare funding for approximately 23... Read more |
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Erwin Chemerinsky Trump's 'Emoluments' Defense Argues He Can Violate the Constitution With Impunity. That Can't Be Right When the president of the United States violates the Constitution there must be a way for a federal court to hear the case and provide a remedy. Three different lawsuits have been filed against... Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Disabled Activists Put Their Bodies on the Line to Defend Health Care “They haven’t told us what we’re being arrested for yet,” said Rhoda Gibson, an organizer with ADAPT , a groups that advocates for disability rights. Gibson was speaking to me via Skype from a police... Read more |
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Nick Turse A Wide World of Winless War Globe-trotting U.S. Special Ops Forces already deployed to 137 nations in 2017 Read more |
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Robert Borosage Stop the Senate Republican Health Care Obscenity This Week This is it. The Senate has to decide on health care. Read more |