By Hope Yen, Associated Press —
GOP moderates and conservatives continue to disagree over the proposed Senate health care legislation.
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By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org —
As Republicans in Congress move to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Democrats are moving in the opposite direction, toward a universal single-payer system.
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment —
The American Embassy in Kabul denied visitor visas to six high school girls who traveled 500 miles from the city of Herat to apply for those visas.
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By Michael P. Fangman —
Most doctors will say that the system is broken, and that only activist citizens can restore a sane, rational method of governance and problem-solving to America.
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By Jonathan Cook / AlterNet —
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh cast doubt on the White House narrative in Syria, but mainstream media continue to maintain radio silence on his revelations.
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The Intercept explains how supporters of California’s SB 562, recently shelved by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, are “hiding the realities of California’s woeful political structure.”
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment —
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is reportedly “extremely concerned” by four neighboring countries’ demand that Qatar shut down the television news network.
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By Margaret Flowers / Health Over Profit —
Sen. Bernie Sanders (pictured, left) was on track to introduce and advocate for a Medicare-for-all bill, but now he says his priority is to improve the Affordable Care Act.
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By Neal Gabler / Moyers & Company —
People will continue to vote for the party that will strip them of their health care as long as it promises to turn back the clock and “Make America White Again.”
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The ban has set the stage for a Supreme Court battle over executive powers later this year. (Pictured: A Muslim woman awaits a relative’s arrival at the Los Angeles airport on Thursday.)
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By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams —
A request for sensitive voter information by the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity is causing a backlash from civil rights advocacy groups, governors and state secretaries. (Pictured, a 2014 march for voter protections.)
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By Carrie Rickey — Although “The Big Sick” presents itself as a familiar story with an intercultural twist, it breaks from the typical boy-meets-girl form in more ways than one, with moving results.
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By Paul Von Blum — A new book by writer, photographer and union organizer David Bacon is a bilingual fusion of journalism and documentary photography that reveals the humanity and suffering of marginalized Latino workers.
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment —
U.S. media is focusing on the president’s provocations rather than on important issues like tax cuts, climate change and health care. (Pictured: Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough on MSNBC.)
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