To some critics, the attorney general’s new policies look a lot like an effort to wrap more chain around people of color and the poor.
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By Donald Kaufman — The “skinny repeal” bill would have repealed Obamacare’s individual and employer coverage mandates and halted federal funds for Planned Parenthood for a year.
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By Elizabeth Bruenig —
A disturbing inside look at conservative evangelicals by Terry Heaton, a key player of the religious right and former right-hand man to Pat Robertson (pictured).
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By Julia Conley / Common Dreams —
Critics chastise Ryan Zinke for allegedly targeting Sen. Lisa Murkowski as payback for her refusal to go along with the GOP’s health care plan.
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By Laura Gottesdiener / TomDispatch —
The United States is focusing its energies—and warplanes—in areas of eastern Syria occupied by Islamic State. This U.S. offensive is dubbed “Wrath of the Euphrates.”
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The timing of the statement was conspicuous, given President Trump’s recently tweeted stance on transgender members of the military, and the DOJ’s comments set a dangerous precedent.
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By Jon Queally / Common Dreams —
Senate Republicans plan to finalize details of a bill that would roll back part of the Affordable Care Act, but opponents, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, call the bill disastrous.
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By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan —
Resistance to the Senate’s attempts to kill the Affordable Care Act is, literally, rolling.
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The president announces via Twitter that those individuals will be barred because of “the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.”
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Tuesday’s progress gives way to Wednesday’s quagmire for Senate Republicans in their repeal-and-replace quest. (Pictured, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.)
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By Carrie Rickey — Director Kathryn Bigelow turns the tragic events of July 1967 in Detroit into a tense suspense film—while illuminating how the central conflicts of that time remain highly volatile.
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By Emma Niles — The news came the same day President Trump called undocumented immigrant gang members “animals” in a xenophobic speech in Ohio.
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By Joe Sexton / ProPublica —
Documenting Hate, a project by a coalition of news organizations, is sustaining a focus on incidents of racial, religious or sexual prejudice. (Pictured, malevolent graffiti is removed.)
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By Jordan Riefe — The follow-up documentary to the surprise 2006 hit is half environmental update and half celebration of all things Al Gore.
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