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Health in America

Medicare Advantage Costs Billions More Than Original Medicare, Researcher Says

Switching seniors to Medicare Advantage plans has cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars more than keeping them in original Medicare, a cost that has exploded since 2018 and is likely to rise even higher, new research has found. Richard Kronick, a former federal health policy researcher and a professor at the University of California-San Diego, said his analysis of newly released Medicare Advantage billing … Continue reading Medicare Advantage Costs Billions More Than Original Medicare, Researcher Says

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Our Long National Nightmare

Capitalists could make billions stopping the climate crisis if Republicans would let them

Today, 19.7% of electricity in the United States comes from nuclear power, an energy source that produces no climate altering emissions and is so synonymous with wealth that one of the world’s best known fictional billionaires owns a nuclear power plant. If you think that’s impressive, slightly more – 19.8% – of our electricity comes from renewables, which have created mini economic booms around the … Continue reading Capitalists could make billions stopping the climate crisis if Republicans would let them

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The Forward Party is Andrew Yang’s brilliant scheme to keep himself relevant

On November 2, New Yorkers will head the polls to pick their next mayor. Democrat Bill de Blasio is term limited, so voters have two fresh faces: Democratic Eric Adams, a retired NYPD officer; and Curtis Silwa, who is like if Frasier was also Batman. In heavily Democratic New York City, Adams is favored to win by a mile. To get to be the party’s … Continue reading The Forward Party is Andrew Yang’s brilliant scheme to keep himself relevant

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Shutting Facebook down for a day didn’t stop conspiracy theories. It spawned more.

For one blessed day on October 4, 2021, Facebook vanished from the face of the Earth. Along with its corporate siblings – Instagram, WhatsApp, Workplace, and Messenger – the platform that CollegeHumor referred to as “the site that commits treason and also tells you what your parents are doing” was taken out by an outage that, as of this writing, remains unexplained. Facebook says it … Continue reading Shutting Facebook down for a day didn’t stop conspiracy theories. It spawned more.

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Canadian voters are deciding whether to oust Justin Trudeau in an election only Justin Trudeau wanted

There are far easier ways to screw up your political career than what Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, is doing right now. Here are some easier ways: you could try to interfere with your country’s justice system to get favors for your financial backers, photos could emerge of the time you painted your face brown for an “Arabian Nights” party, and you could struggle to … Continue reading Canadian voters are deciding whether to oust Justin Trudeau in an election only Justin Trudeau wanted

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Brave Hero Rewarded With Prison Sentence

In 2014, an anonymous person leaked more than 150 pages of classified material that revealed a lot about the American drone program. That leak was reportedly the basis of The Drone Papers, an expose by The Intercept published the following year. The revelations in The Drone Papers shook America to its core in the way these things so often do: by being almost totally ignored. … Continue reading Brave Hero Rewarded With Prison Sentence

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Catching Up With (and Cleaning Up After) the Critical Race Theory Panic

On September 17th, 2020, Donald Trump gave a speech promoting “patriotic education” which aired conservative grievances about educators who dare to talk about the effects of race and class in America.  To those of us who came of age under a president who famously declared “either you are with us or you are with the terrorists”, a smug war criminal equating criticism of America with … Continue reading Catching Up With (and Cleaning Up After) the Critical Race Theory Panic

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Politics

After two decades, Congress is repealing the president’s nearly unlimited war power

9 /11 was, for those who remember it vividly, terrifying. It’s right there in the world “terrorism.” On that day, and in the days and weeks after, it was hard to fathom that this was the same year we were introduced to “Island in the Sun.” It was a different world – a scarier world. And Americans have pretty much just the one response to … Continue reading After two decades, Congress is repealing the president’s nearly unlimited war power

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