WEEKEND EDITION: Senate Barely Approves Scaled Back Legislation on Climate, Taxes, Health care

The Week in Review

Sanders Announces Amendment to Strip All Fossil Fuel Handouts From Manchin Deal The Vermont senator will also introduce an amendment to strengthen the reconciliation bill's drug price reforms. Read more → 'Enormous Victory': Kansas Voters Resoundingly Defeat Anti-Abortion Amendment "This is truly a historic day for Kansas and for America. Freedom has prevailed." Read more → Alarm Raised Over Manchin Side Deal That Would Pave Way for Major 'Climate Bomb' "Democrats shouldn't be sacrificing communities in the path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline just to please a senator in the pocket of Big Oil." Read more → Senate Barely Approves Scaled Back Legislation on Climate, Taxes, Health care But thanks to Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), there was a huge, last-minute win for the private equity and hedge fund industries Read more → 'What the Hell is Wrong With Them': GOP Senators Kill $35 Cap on Insulin 'Republicans told millions of Americans who use insulin to go to hell.' Read more → World Faces 'Loaded Gun' on Hiroshima's 77th Anniversary “We must ask: What have we learned from the mushroom cloud that swelled above this city?” Read more →

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Opinion

The New York Times' Slide Toward Mediocrity 'Its most basic mission is to offer the readers what they need to know about this tormented world of ours." by Ralph Nader Read more → In a Landslide Victory, Kansas Chose to Trust Women Kansas voters sent out a clear message: We are not barnyard animals. by Priti Gulati Cox Read more → Drunk on Power: The Neo-Liberal Capture of the South African Mediascape by the US State Department The South African mediascape has been captured by a coalition of right-wing and neo-liberal forces, with key online publications like News24, amaBhungane and Daily Maverick all firmly under neo-liberal control. by Phillip Dexter, Roscoe Palm Read more → How to Stop the GOP From Killing Medicare, Social Security, and Us The Republican Party is quite literally taking aim at the lives of low-income and working-class people of this country. by Thom Hartmann Read more →

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