Noam Chomsky

• Medicare for All is cheaper: Multiple studies say M4A is more cost-effective than a public option
  Two new studies found that the Medicare for All plan proposed by candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., would cost less than the public option…
  Igor Derysh
• Malcolm X’s daughter on her father’s legacy and the new series “Who Killed Malcolm X?”
  Fifty-five years ago today, Malcolm X was assassinated. The civil rights leader was shot to death on February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. He was…
  Amy Goodman
• The ‘nurtured insanity’ of a fundamentalist upbringing
  There is a great exodus taking place in Christian circles. Can it be called a loss of faith? I don’t think so. It is rather a loss of confidence in…
  Frank Schaeffer
• The ‘pro-life swing voter’ some moderate Democrats chase is a myth
  A thing that I do not understand is why journalists assume that Democratic presidential candidates absolutely must respond to pro-life activists, or deal with The Abortion Problem. I sometimes think…
  Daniel Schultz
• Trump’s corrupt pardon spree has only just begun
  The power of the president to grant pardons as stated in the Constitution is unconditional, as President Donald Trump has observed. But as he prepares to bestow that favor on…
  Joe Conason
• Want to punch a Nazi? Amazon’s ‘Hunters’ is the show for you
  “Hunters” is a series very much of its time – which is to say our time. Never mind that the series is set in 1977 and follows the adventures of…
  Melanie McFarland
• ‘A travesty and a disgrace’: Trump quietly issues memo that could abolish union rights for 750,000 federal workers
  “This administration will not stop until it takes away all workers’ rights to form and join a union.” President Donald Trump on Thursday quietly issued a memo granting Defense Secretary…
  Common Dreams
• Watch Anderson Cooper use the long-form of ‘BS’ while shutting down Rod Blagojevich on CNN
  CNN anchor Anderson Cooper was visibly angered by claims made by former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich during a Friday evening CNN interview. Blogojevich was sentenced to 14 years in federal…
  Bob Brigham
• What election? This is a civil war to stop Trump
  In what amounted to a casual aside at his rally in Colorado Springs on Thursday night, Donald Trump drew the battle lines in this election as clearly as I’ve heard…
  Lucian K. Truscott IV
• Justice Sotomayor writes a devastating rebuke of her conservative colleagues’ callousness and fealty to Trump
  Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a devastating conclusion to a dissenting opinion released Friday, drawing attention to her conservative colleagues’ callousness toward inmates facing the death penalty and contrasting it with…
  Cody Fenwick