GOP Senator Says Deal Is Set on Payments to Health Insurers

By Alan Fram / AP Oct 17, 2017 Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., says he has reached an agreement with his Democratic counterpart on resuming federal payments that Trump blocked last week. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

In Trump Times, the Enemies of Our Enemies Are Not Necessarily Our Friends

By Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch Feb 11, 2017 How can we recognize who our allies are in the mixed-up world of the new president? Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Lester Holt’s Big Lie About the Commission on Presidential Debates Is a Problem in U.S. Politics

Staff / Truthdig Sep 27, 2016 The most egregious falsehood in the first 2016 presidential debate was from the moderator. The CPD is not nonpartisan, and this fact is helping to kill our democracy. Here's what can be done about the problem. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

John Kasich Teamed With Clintons on 1990s Law That Helped Double Extreme Poverty

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 15, 2016 As House Budget Committee chairman in the 1990s, Republican presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who has claimed to be a friend of the working poor and a foe of Hillary Clinton, worked with the Clintons to throw Americans off welfare. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Obama Signs New Education Law Granting States Greater Power

Staff / Truthdig Dec 11, 2015 The Every Student Succeeds Act scraps the federally mandated high-stakes testing regime of No Child Left Behind, the despised Bush-era federal education law. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Congressional Republicans and Democrats Unite on Two Bills to Check Surveillance and Patriot Act

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 1, 2015 Twin bills that would revise the Patriot Act and curb the state surveillance exposed by Edward Snowden look certain to become law as bipartisan support mounts in both chambers of Congress. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Will Liberals and Conservatives Unite to Defeat Fast Track and the TPP?

By Alison Rose Levy Mar 8, 2015 A proposal to give President Obama the power to sign two international trade deals without congressional oversight has commentators on the left and right fuming.A proposal to give President Obama the power to secretly and unilaterally negotiate two big trade pacts has pundits on the left and right fuming. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

State of the Union

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Log Jam

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Perry’s Farewell

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Plain Vanilla Bipartisanship

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Aug 7, 2014 When does Congress become so embarrassed by its laughably low approval ratings that its leaders decide to pass laws to make our country a modestly better place? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Ignition

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