| Apr 19, 2017 | Environment / HealthQuestion: What do you get when you mix a barrel of fables, a sack of mendacity, and a gross of whoppers – topped with a thick layer of subterfuge? Answer: The fiasco that’s been the Republican attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “We’re going...
| Apr 12, 2017 | Environment / HealthMy neighbor moved out this week. I learned that when I found a moving truck blocking my car and I couldn’t get out of the driveway. No matter — by the end of the day, the truck was gone. In its place, however, was a queen-sized pillow-top mattress, a wooden...
| Apr 5, 2017 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyWhy? That’s the big question the mass media is asking about the sudden failure of the Republican leaders’ relentless push to demonize and kill Obamacare. After all, the GOP bragged that they now control the legislative game and would quickly knock...
| Mar 29, 2017 | Environment / HealthFinding out that your child is autistic is usually presented as a disaster, a financial and emotional drain that needs a long period of grief to come to terms with. And with one in every 68 children — one for every three classes of primary school kids — receiving this...
| | Environment / HealthWhen Barack Obama announced the Clean Power Plan, Scientific American used his own words to criticize it for not going far enough. “There is such a thing as being too late when it comes to climate change,” Obama said. “The science tells us we have to...
| | Environment / HealthIt appears that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s 123-page legislative plan for Trumpcare, the GOP’s so-called “replacement” for Obamacare, is dead — for now, anyway. Republicans tried to rush it through, but not before the Congressional Budget Office...
