The G.O.P.'s Medical Malpractice: Either Republicans Don’t Understand Healthcare, or They’re Just Liars

The GOP has already indicted itself as both criminally ignorant and casually hypocritical about the nature of health insurance and the critical role government necessarily plays in it.

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You Get What You Pay For: If Money Is Speech, Can Democracy Work?

Like many laws that bend public policy toward private advantage, campaign finance laws tilt the political playing field toward outcomes that are undemocratic – a self-reinforcing cycle of economic inequality begetting political inequality begetting economic inequality.

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Speak No Evil: Many Americans Don’t Know It, but Their Employers Can Censor Their Political Speech

"Corporate censorship is much more common than most people recognize... [as] employers use their financial power to control employees' free speech and political behavior."

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Why Is America So Opposed to Universal Health Care?

While the rest of the developed world has largely accepted the government’s role in ensuring affordable health care, the U.S. remains stuck in an endless debate full of misinformation perpetuated by rich interest groups.

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Opinion: 100 years after the Titanic - and we're still sinking

The owners of the Titanic had too few lifeboats on board because they weren't legally forced to provide more. Now that reckless, greed-driven banking and financial executives have sunk our economy, here's a thought: Before you bet the farm that high-risk enterprises are inclined to self-regulate, have a word with Alan Greenspan.

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Pre-Existing Condition

What ‘government takeover’ of healthcare? Corporate interests still determine what sort of system we have.

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