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Sunday, 25 June 2017 - 11:31pm
Adolph Reed Jr.
I’ve been in New Orleans since May 1. I came to visit my mother, who died on May 4, five months shy of her 95th birthday and was buried on May 10. That means I’ve been here through much of this latest round of public cavil over the city’s decision to remove the four most conspicuous monuments to the Confederate insurrection, 1861-1865.
Sunday, 25 June 2017 - 5:06am
Jon Queally, staff writer
Sunday, 25 June 2017 - 3:30am
Mary Sweeters
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 me.
Sunday, 25 June 2017 - 3:23am
Sophie Ota
Sunday, 25 June 2017 - 3:09am
Tim Koechlin
The US health care system is complicated, for sure. But in some essential and profoundly consequential ways, it’s not complicated at all.
A few related truths about health care in the US:
The US health care system is (and has long been) wildly inefficient, inequitable and ineffective. The depth of its dysfunction is quite shocking (more on this below). The Affordable Care Act (ACA) made the US health care system better. The Republicans’ repeal and the ACA would make dramatically worse.
Sunday, 25 June 2017 - 2:36am
John Atcheson
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.”
Sunday, 25 June 2017 - 2:23am
Steven Harper
Eventually, Trump is likely to fire special counsel Robert Mueller. Trump’s repeated statements about the Russia “hoax” — along with his apparent attempts to influence the FBI’s investigation — warrant a close look at the process by which he could do so. Equally important are the limited ways to stop him.
Sunday, 25 June 2017 - 2:08am
Robert Reich
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 millions of poor households and elderly.
It’s done with a sleight-of-hand intended to elude not only the public but also the Congressional Budget Office.
Here’s how the Senate Republican bill does it. The bill sets a per-person cap on Medicaid spending in each state. That cap looks innocent enough because it rises every year with inflation.
Sunday, 25 June 2017 - 2:03am
Christopher Brauchli
What’s all the shootin’ for?
— George Michael Cohan, The Tavern
Sunday, 25 June 2017 - 1:46am
Sunday, 25 June 2017 - 1:37am
Garrett Jennings
Despite the constant barrage of racist, sexist, and xenophobic remarks from Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, even his detractors managed to hear--through all that hate speech--his promise to "drain the swamp." Trump tied the noose of Goldman Sachs around Ted Cruz’s neck during the primary and never let anybody forget about Hillary Clinton’s paid speeches to big banks during the general election.
Sunday, 25 June 2017 - 1:09am
Common Dreams staff
In an effort to make sure that people do not become "numb" to the constant lies told by President of the United States Donald Trump, the New York Times has now published, in one convenient place, "nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office."