Affordable Care Act

The result of the government shutdown could be catastrophic or the political epiphany this country needs. Here are some possible outcomes.

If the public is as dramatically uninformed as polls show about an array of critical issues, including the Affordable Care Act, democracy is seriously threatened, argues Doolittle.

Noam Chomsky gives his perspective on the US government shutdown, the Syrian civil war, capitalist reform in South America and more in a Truthout interview.

You wouldn't know it by listening to right-wing media, but Obamacare is off to a great start, and more.

Economist Dean Baker and Dr. Margaret Flowers debate the merits of the Affordable Care Act.

We are smack dab in the middle of the most irrational, damaging, stupid, reckless, feckless fundraising drive in the history of currency.

Itu2019s a mistake not to weigh the costs of ObamaCareu2019s stately three-year progress toward partial coverage for the the American people, and just as important to weigh the opportunity …

Sometime in the next week, Congress will either get it together to pass a new budget resolution or the government will shut down.

The Constitution of the United States does not allow a majority of the House of Representatives to repeal the law of the land by de-funding it.

MSNBC continues on with its campaign to cast the Tea Party Republicans in the role of principal villains in the imminent Government budget/government shutdown crisis and the likely coming …