Pharma Is Mobilizing to Tank Democrats’ Effort to Cut Prescription Drug Costs
The pharmaceutical industry is mobilizing its army of Capitol Hill lobbyists in a last-ditch bid to tank Senate Democrats’ effort to cut prescription drug costs with legislation that would, for the first time, require Medicare to directly negotiate the prices of a small number of medications. While Democrats’ latestDrug pricing plan highly modestAdvocates say that […]
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Trump’s Allies in Congress Are About to Be Humiliated in Prime Time
Early reports suggest tonight’s reportedly final 8 pm House Select Committee hearing on the January 6 Capitol attack will be quite the stemwinder. According to The Washington PostOne core element of the evening will include showing outtakes of a Donald Trump video he attempted to make the day after the attack. Although the video was […]
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Jan. 6 Committee Will Show How Trump Was Resistant to Condemning Violence
The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2020 attack on the U.S. Capitol will share video of former President Donald Trump attempting to condemn the violence. Trump issued a statement one day after a mob made up of loyalists attacked the Capitol Building. criticizing the attackThe program aired later that night. However, the January […]
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Young Workers Are Energizing the Labor Movement With Climate Activism
The North American labor movement is experiencing renewed momentum, driven by the same age group that, across party affiliations, and the urban-rural divide has expressed its enthusiasm majority-to-outsize supportFor advancing a climate policy overhaul that includes economic justice as its core. The overall membership rate of the United States’ unions has risen slightly in 2020. […]
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New Mexico’s Megafires Are a Hint of the Climate Nightmare Ahead
Firefighters don’t normally allude to early English epics, but in a briefing on the massive Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire in northern New Mexico, a top field chief said, “It’s like Beowulf: it’s not the thing you fear, it is the mother of the thing you fear.” He meant that the flames you face may be […]
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Climate Crisis Drives Migratory Monarch Butterflies Onto Endangered List
Thursday’s official listing by the International Union for Conservation of Nature of the beloved migratory butterfly as endangered was made by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. It cited dire threats to the subspecies that are threatened by climate change, deforestation and pesticide use. Dr. Bruno Oberle, the director-general of IUCN — the world’s […]
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Joe Biden Tests Positive for COVID-19, White House Says
According to the White House, President Joe Biden has contracted COVID-19. The president, who is fully vaccinated against coronavirus and has had two booster shots, is exhibiting “very minor symptoms,” according to initial reports. Karine Jean-Pierre, press secretary, stated that Biden is also taking Paxlovid. This medication is used to treat depression. works best when […]
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The Media Secretly Hated Biden All This Time?
Did you ever read a column and think, “You must be joking”? That was my reaction to Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon Jr. on Tuesday trying to explain “How media coverage drove Biden’s political plunge.” Bacon tweeted it this way: “One of the biggest challenges for Biden has been facing a mainstream media looking to […]
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The Supreme Court Cited “Ordered Liberty” to Overturn “Roe.” What’s Next?
What the hell is “ordered liberty”? This archaic legal term is not well-known in the United States, but it shows the direction in which current attacks on civil rights and freedoms are heading. Right-wing members of the Supreme Court used the term “ordered liberty” — defined as “freedom limited by the need for order in […]
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As Congress Fails to Act, Pressure Grows on Biden to Declare Climate Emergency
President Biden outlined new efforts to combat the climate crisis in a speech Wednesday but stopped short of declaring a national climate emergency — a move sought by the U.S. climate movement and many progressive lawmakers. This comes after Senator Joe Manchin just scuttled Biden’s Build Back Better climate legislation and as more than 100 […]
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