What we know: Medicare Part D does not allow the government (American taxpayers) to have a negotiating role when it comes to dealing with the pharmaceutical industry. Since 1991 state Medicaid programs have benefited from...
Read MoreAny online community is going to have its occassional growing pains or internal strife. This community has been particularly invulnerable to such things. One reason is that it has been very welcoming to new members. Another...
Read MoreIn Ron Suskind’s new book, “The One Percent Doctrine,” he writes that an unnamed CIA official read the “Bin Laden Determined To Strike In U.S.” memo to vacationing President George Bush in...
Read MoreRight wing nationalism. Racism. Xenophobia. Exceptionalism. Paranoia. Militarism. Chicken and egg. Call and response. Old familiar stories, far too often told, and no less disconcerting when the tales are being woven within the...
Read MoreAir strikes alone aren’t doing the job, apparently: Israel, meanwhile, hinted at a full-scale invasion. It warned residents to flee a nearly 20-mile swath of south Lebanon along the border. Its warplanes also launched new...
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