Is it “Bias” to Follow the Evidence to its Natural Conclusion?

Jonathan Chait gave us a terrific piece yesterday, entitled “The Backward Logic of the Nunes Memo.”  It’s not a long...

What Does the Death of Obamacare Repeal (at least for now) Tell Us?

If we can believe the clues, then the GOP’s determination to rip Obamacare out by the roots has come to...

Trump’s Travel Ban: The Point is the Ban, Not Safety

So Trump has his travel ban – a constrained version of it, to be further reviewed by the Supreme Court...

Obamacare Works if Leaders Try to Make it Work. But What About if They Try to Destroy It?

Make no mistake.  Obamacare has made health care available to 20-plus million folks and works long term if those in...

Main GOP Argument Against Obamacare Is a Lie

Sarah Kliff at Vox lays waste to the GOP talking point that they have to do something now because “Obamacare...

GOP Beavering Away to Immiserate American Lives

While we are all absorbed in the dance of the seven veils being done over at the White House WRT...

Trump Playing Games, Undermining Americans’ Health Care

Trump Playing Games, Undermining Americans’ Health Care

  …there is a powerful faction inside the White House, led by the president himself, that is rooting for the...

Trump and Paris: Spite as a Guiding Principle

Trump and Paris: Spite as a Guiding Principle

“Conservative politics is now less about ideas than about making the right enemies cry out in anguish.” https://t.co/iGTsVaZh6N — Charlie...

The Comey Firing is Worse Than Watergate

This isn’t remotely like Watergate. During Watergate, honorable people in government resigned rather than be associated with improper acts. —...

A Moral Disgrace: House GOP Passes TrumpCare

They claim they have the votes to pass it today. (UPDATE: So apparently they’ve actually done it.  Shameful and monstrous.)...