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The Case for Impeachment Goes Way Beyond Ukraine
Democrats need to take Trump’s crimes against people and the planet as seriously as those against Joe Biden.
No One Should Have to Bargain for Health Care
As the GM strike shows, employers use their workers’ health as a bargaining chip. Medicare for All would end that.
Vaping Is Dangerous*
Maybe we’re banning the wrong kind of cartridge.
What the Felicity Huffman Scandal Says About America
Low-income parents risk jail time for putting their kids in better public schools, while the rich bribe colleges to shut the less affluent out.
Big Business Won’t Save Us from Itself
Nearly 200 CEOs have signed a pledge to “do better” than serving their own greed. How? They won’t say.
Fighting for Health Care in America’s Forgotten Towns
Life expectancy in my Western Pa. town is on its way down. But there’s hope — if we fight harmful myths about poverty.
President Trump: I’m One of the Workers You Lied To
Trump keeps giving tax breaks and federal contracts to companies that send Midwestern jobs — like mine — out of the country.
Punching Through the Bad Headlines
Trump’s environmental policies are a daily slog of bad news, but committed activists are slowly changing the story.
To Make Vaping Safer, Legalize Cannabis
Absent legalization, the feds can’t regulate the vaping contaminants that seem to be making people sick.
Bibi, Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough?
The embattled Israeli prime minister made a last-minute bid to save his reelection by promising to annex more Palestinian territory.