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This Week’s Podcast: A Decade of Reveal

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The first pilot episode of Reveal exposed how the Department of Veterans Affairs was overprescribing opioids to veterans and contributing to an overdose crisis. Journalist Aaron Glantz explained how he received—surprisingly quickly—a decade’s worth of opioid prescription data from the federal government.  “Sometimes, you have to sue to get the records,” he said. “I have to think […]

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Trump’s All-Out Assault on Science Constitutes a “Mind-Boggling Own-Goal”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference at the agency jeopardizing the future of US industries […]

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A July 4th Reflection

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The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. As the nation celebrates its 249th birthday, it’s hard not to wonder […]

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The Bill Moyers That Obituaries Missed

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“And they get away with the corruption,” read the email subject line. I knew it was from Bill Moyers, because launching right into the point was the M.O. when he sent me news clips and ideas, sometimes several times a day, in the waning months of the first Trump administration. They would ding in at […]

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“Self-Inflicted Tragedy”: Washington’s Abrupt Turnaround on Climate Policy

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US House of Representatives voted 218 to 214 on Thursday to pass President Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill, greenlighting deep cuts to America’s social safety net and the decimation of the country’s only federal climate strategy. Democrats uniformly opposed the bill, while […]

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Republicans Just Passed “the Worst Bill in Modern American History”

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Just in time for the nation’s birthday, House Republicans have passed the most regressive legislation in recent memory, a bill that’s expected to cut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and boot some 12 million Americans off their health insurance, even as it explodes the federal deficit—all to extend and expand tax cuts that favor the rich. […]

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“An Absolute Moral Failure”: Disability Advocates React to GOP Medicaid Cuts

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On Thursday, House Republicans voted to enact a spending bill that will strip close to one trillion dollars from federal Medicaid funding across a decade—an attack expected to cause tens of thousands of preventable deaths each year, disproportionately among the one in three disabled people on Medicaid in the US. The cuts will, among other […]

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The Supreme Court Turns Its Sights on Trans Athletes

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The US Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will hear a pair of cases in the fall involving state laws in that ban transgender girls and women from participating in girls’ and women’s school sports. The cases originate in Idaho, which passed the country’s first trans youth sports ban in 2020, and West Virginia, which […]

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The Choice Some Pregnant Immigrants Face: Deportation or Parenthood

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Shortly after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, and Texas completely outlawed abortion in communities along the Rio Grande Valley, the effect was swift. In this region, which is home to 1.4 million residents, most of them Latinx or immigrants, the area’s only abortion clinic in McAllen was forced to shut down. “When we […]

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Trump’s FCC Scraps Ban on Prison Phone Price Gouging, a Gift to Some of His Top Donors

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This story was originally published by Popular Information, a substack publication to which you can subscribe here. The Federal Communications Commission will no longer enforce a rule capping the price of prison phone calls, according to an announcement made Monday by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. The move suspends a 2024 FCC decision that capped the price of in-state phone calls at 6 cents […]

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Here are the Declaration of Independence’s Grievances Against King George III. Many Apply to Trump.

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When Thomas Jefferson was writing the Declaration of Independence in the weeks leading up July 4, 1776, he wanted to not only rely on just high-falutin enlightenment ideals to justify the case for separation from Great Britain. His aim was also to present a slam-dunk indictment of King George III—to prove that the royal was […]

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What $100 Billion in New ICE Funding Looks Like

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President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic agenda, which seeks to inject plutocratic ideology and disdain for the poor into nearly every corner of American life, is on the verge of passage. Its success comes despite overwhelming unpopularity and official estimates that it will add $4.1 trillion to the national debt while slashing $930 billion from Medicaid […]

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