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William Rivers Pitt: “You, Mrs. or Ms. or Mr. Bulletproof, are sick.”

So far the failures of Healthcare.gov have been public and embarrassing, bandied about by Republican politicians who opposed health care reform from the start.

Noam Chomsky: The rejection of international obligations has indeed become more entrenched in recent years, along with quiet acceptance of the doctrine that the US has every right to …

The current crisis of American democracy centers on the craziness that has engulfed the Republican Party, once considered home of the responsible ‘adults’ but now more like an island …

Republicans would rather pad the wallets of the wealthy elite than put food on the tables of America's most needy and vulnerable.

This Friday, the SNAP program will be slashed by $5 billion anyway, thanks to the expiration of the 2009 Recovery Act that increased funding to that program.

The current Republican obsession with attacking programs that benefit Americans in need, ranging from food stamps to health care reform, isn't about some philosophical commitment to small government; after …

The full Social Security benefit is pegged to a u201cretirement ageu201d thatu2019s many years after most people retire.

While we continue to argue about the debt ceiling we need to be having real discussions about the role of government in the US and how the conservative right …

Is the media giving Americans the information they need in order to make informed decisions?