On NPR this morning, Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Georgia) expressed his support for repealing the state-and-local tax deduction by asking rhetorically if it’s fair to ask…
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The main Republican way to avoid talking about the role of guns in gun violence is to talk about mental health care (not that Speaker Ryan…
Dan Lederman’s Iowa pal Sam Clovis is supposed to face a confirmation hearing November 9 for a USDA science post for which he has no…
Senators Bob Corker and Jeff Flake are showing us that we should not lump all Republicans in with South Dakota’s Congressional delegation as morally spineless…
Health consulting firm Avalere analyzes the 2018 ACA insurance exchange market and finds premiums on “silver” plans will rise by an average of 34%: Avalere…
Donald Trump probably hasn’t read The Handmaid’s Tale. But his failed effort this week to use his power to restrain a young woman from having an…
Speaking of snowflakes, Jeff Flake is no flake. The junior Senator from Arizona gave this important speech on the floor of the United States Senate…
Speaking of entitlement-minded majoritarians stricken with anxiety as their privilege slips away, a new NPR poll finds that “majorities in many ethnic, identity and racial…
Donald Trump declared an emergency yesterday…sort of. No, not over opioid addiction—we’re still waiting for the formalization of that Trump ad lib—but over the “immediate…
Under President Barack Obama, we pulled the economy out of recession and got the federal deficit back below the 40-year average as measured by percentage…