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Jan 13 2020
Analysis
Taiwan’s single-payer success story — and its lessons for America
The first in a Vox series on how countries around the world achieve universal health care.
Thirty years ago, before she dyed her hair pink to cover up the white, Dr. Huei-wen Tien came to Xiulin, a township on the east coast of Taiwan severed from the island’s urban centers by a formidable mountain range.
She had agreed to serve for 10 years in an aboriginal community in exchange
VoxJan 08 2020
Background
What History Says Will Happen Next in Iran
After claiming credit for killing Qassem Soleimani outside Baghdad International Airport, Donald Trump said that the world was now a “safer place.” This viewpoint was perhaps understandable, given Soleimani’s position as the commander of Iran’s Quds Force and his role in developing the Badr Organization in Iraq, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria, and the Houthi movement in Yemen, among numerous
Guest WriterFeb 01 2022
Headline Roundup
Schools and Parents Spar Over Books on LGBTQ+ Issues in School Libraries
Should books about LGBTQ+ issues with sexually explicit details be available in K-12 school libraries?
At issue are recent novels such as "Lawn Boy," "Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts)," "All Boys Aren't Blue" and other books that detail LGBTQ+ youth coming-of-age stories through sometimes sexually explicit passages. In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott directed state officials to review all
NBC News (Online) Newsweek The Epoch TimesApr 08 2020
News
Trump-Loving Texas Doctor Enlists Nursing Home Patients To ‘Test’ The President’s Favorite Coronavirus Drug
No bar exam? No problem! Every day Donald Trump is president, we wake up in a brand new issue spotter. Today’s scenario comes courtesy of a Trump supporter in Texas who got so excited by the president’s constant hyping of the supposed miracle drug hydroxychloroquine that he thought he’d conduct his own experiment to prove its efficacy.
There is currently no proof that the anti-malarial
Above The LawMar 05 2019
News
Must Read: Sarah Sanders's Fiery Monday Night Statement for Jerry Nadler
Democrats have not been shy about their priorities in this 116th Congress. The chairmen of some of the most powerful committees on the hill have begun the year by launching investigations into President Trump. They are going after his finances, his business dealings, his election win, and, of course, his relationship to Russia.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) sent
TownhallAug 16 2015
News
Hillary Clinton's Iowa reset: Is it enough?
After impressing Iowa Democratic activists with a stern tongue-lashing of Republicans at Friday night’s famous Wing Ding fundraiser, Hillary Clinton took a step out of her comfort zone to try to win the hearts of the Hawkeye State’s vital voters. She walked out into the crowd of 2,000 politically savvy Iowans and seated herself a few rows back from the stage, listening to other candidates give
PoliticoMay 17 2013
News
At Cincinnati IRS office, surprise over claims of partisan villainy
The fog of scandal hangs over a boxy, modernist, 10-story building that looks like a monument to paperwork. Shrubs and chain smokers flank its front entrance here on Main Street, in the heart of downtown. Every day, 2,000 employees go to work at various federal agencies in this John F. Kennedy-era structure, whose chief tenant is the Internal Revenue Service  which is having just about
Washington PostDec 06 2019
News
Nancy Pelosi Takes Donald Trump’s Insult, Fires It Right Back At Him
“The president is a master at projecting,” Pelosi told CNN’s Jake Tapper after Trump claimed she’d had “a nervous fit.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday night hit back at Donald Trump’s claim on Twitter that she’d “had a nervous fit” reportedly after she rebuked a journalist for asking if she “hated” the president.
Pelosi, who earlier in the day called on House
HuffPostOct 08 2020
News
The VP debate offers the nation a glimpse of a post-Trump future
At one point during Wednesday night's vice presidential debate, Mike Pence answered a question about abortion laws in Indiana by discussing Qasem Soleimani. Kamala Harris responded to a question about whether she and Joe Biden would expand the Supreme Court by invoking Abe Lincoln.
Let's say this at the outset: This was a boring, unfocused debate between two well-prepared and polished
PoliticoAug 11 2020
News
Seattle's police chief stepping down after City Council votes to trim department, sources say
Seattle's Police Chief Carmen Best is stepping down, multiple sources tell the CBS affiliate there, KIRO-TV. One source calls the development "devastating."
The move came to light made the same day the City Council approved reducing the department's ranks by as many as 100 officers through layoffs and attrition, note's KIRO's Gary Horcher:
Cuts to the department have been
CBS News (Online)