Editorial Cartoons
Editorial Cartoons
‘Medicare for All’ Would Help Heal the Income Gap
Jan 7, 2020 The benefits of such a plan far outweigh the costs to the uppermost strata of American taxpayers.Bernie Sanders Unveils His New ‘Medicare for All’ Plan
Apr 10, 2019 The Vermont senator shakes up the 2020 presidential race by reopening the debate over his call to eliminate private health insurance.
Why Republicans Can Get Away With Killing Minimum Wage Increase
May 1, 2014 On Wednesday the Senate failed to pass an increase in the minimum wage, even though two-thirds of Americans want it. How can this be?
Truthdiggers of the Week: Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese
Nov 3, 2013 What emerges from the duo's reckoning of promises broken by Obama's "health care" law is the sense that nothing pledged to an ailing, exhausted and impoverished public is sure to be delivered.What emerges from the duo's reckoning of promises broken by Obama's "health care" law is the sense that nothing pledged to an ailing and exhausted public is sure to be delivered.
Truthdigger of the Week: Anonymous Obamacare Explainer
Feb 10, 2013 Mindful of the bewildering complexity of the issues they report, the best journalists are also teachers who patiently explain the deep meanings and consequences of their findings in language literate audiences can understand. With the Affordable Care Act going into full effect in less than a year, a detailed lesson on how it will impact many Americans' finances is urgent.With the Affordable Care Act going into full effect soon, a lesson on its financial impact is urgent.
Obama on Reddit: Overturn Citizens United
Aug 30, 2012 During an "Ask me anything" session on the social news website Reddit, President Obama tepidly suggested “mobilizing a constitutional amendment process to overturn Citizens United” in the days ahead.
Health Care: Give the People What They Want
Jun 21, 2012 Most Americans want pretty much the same outcome from health care reform, and it's not what either major-party candidate is offering.
Fighting Corporations and a Death Sentence
Oct 29, 2011 Four years after a health insurance company decided her life wasn’t worth saving, 18-year-old Miran Istina, who suffers from myelogenous leukemia, has dedicated her struggle to the global fight against the corporate control of politics. (more)
Virginia Judge Opens Fire on Health Care Reform
Dec 14, 2010 It's not like nobody saw this coming, but Monday, one Judge Henry E Hudson of Richmond, Va, kicked off the next round of attacks on what the right still likes to call "Obamacare" by contesting the constitutionality .The Difference Between Liberalism and Progressivism
Mar 26, 2010 Even as the word progressive is now ubiquitous, a perverted form of liberalism has almost completely snuffed out genuine progressivism.
