Marie Newman

The Trumpists were whooping it up after the assassinations at the Baghdad Airport.

There are some undeniably good things Obamacare accomplished-- top-most, prohibiting predatory insurance companies from ripping off the general public by denying reasonably-priced

On Tuesday, the House voted on two bills-- basically an omnibus spending package, the annual last minute crappy spending bill ($1.4 trillion this time) that is always rumored to be, if unpassed, a harbinger of the end of the world.

What's the absolutely single most important thing Bernie can achieve if he's elected president in 2020? Yeah, I know they're all import but pick just one. Medicare-for-All?

Thinking Outside the Box by Nancy OhanianPeople living in Flint still don't have pure water to drink. In other words, the water is polluted. The aspiration of doing that-- making it potable and pure-- was just too costly, too idealistic... too much of that liberal purity for Michigan and Trump Regime conservatives to cope with. Is the water in your town pure? Towns with water no one should be drinking are listed below.

Bernie won the SNL debate but a few hours before the show aired, the Washington Post's Paul Kane asserted that "For almost four months, House Democrats have enjoyed something that once seemed unattainable: relative calm inside their caucus.

While the impeachment inquiry keeps chugging along in the House, there is also always Congress' regular, less glamorous but important work to get done. Wednesday, for example, California Congressman Mark DeSaulnier introduced a resolution to consider H.R.

Chicago's top political reporter, Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times, just blew up Blue Dog Dan Lipinski's reelection campaign by exposing an internal campaign document about how to appeal to Republican voters.

Last week, Roland made an announcement: we're done with India. I've been there at least half a dozen times since 1970-- once for over a year-- so I wasn't especially disturbed by the proclamation but I asked why. He said that the air pollution is so deadly in the major cities that it was absolutely unsafe. He has some app he uses that measures air pollution around the world.

This map of Chicago from The Economist shocked me as the magazine makes the point that if you take a ride along Chicago's red line-- a rail service running north-south for 23 miles-- life expectancy varies by 30 years from one end to the other! Thirty years! In a developed country! In the richest country in the world!