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The barriers to Medicare for All, wrote Matt Bruenig of the People's Policy Project, "are not technical deficiencies or costs, but rather political opposition from Republicans and conservative Democrats who would rather spend more money to provide less health care." (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
The analysis shows that administrative costs under a single-payer healthcare system "will be lower than what even the most rabid Medicare for All supporters have traditionally claimed."

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Presiden Donald Trump has been named "Loser of the Year" by the German news magazine Der Spiegel. (Photo: Michael M. Santiago./Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"The country is more divided than ever since the times of the Civil War. This is not a by-product of Trump's politics, it is their goal."



Andrew Saul testifies before the Senate Finance Committee during his confirmation hearing to be commissioner of the Social Security Administration on October 2, 2018 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Donald Trump's political appointees are undermining our Social Security system, and Biden must remove them immediately."




by Julia Conley, staff writer
{olitical observers on Friday warned that Texas's legal challenge of the election results, which has garnered the support of more than 100 Republican officials, is nonetheless a sign that democracy is under significant attack in the United States. 




by Julia Conley, staff writer
Often accused of being ineffective by conservatives and centrists, the congresswoman highlighted her work passing legislation, serving her constituents, and leading House investigations into corruption and fraud.



Brandon Bernard "died with dignity and love, in spite of the cruel, unjust system that condemned him to die as a result of egregious prosecutorial misconduct," said anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean. (Photo: EPA/via Shutterstock)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"In a world of incredible violence, the state should not be involved in premeditated murder," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.



People line up in cars to receive food at the Share Your Christmas food distribution event in Kissimmee, Florida on December 10, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
More than half of the House GOP caucus has endorsed a likely doomed-to-fail Texas lawsuit seeking to undo the results of the November presidential election.



Then a Democratic presidential candidate, former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden campaigned with former Secretary of State John Kerry on December 6, 2019 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The letter to the president-elect calls for not only rejoining the Paris agreement, but also "bold, equitable, and ambitious emissions reductions and a commitment to support less wealthy countries to do the same."



President Donald Trump watches as UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan speak on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. on September 15, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Our government should not sell a single bullet to the UAE, much less billions of dollars in deadly military equipment."



Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks on the Senate floor on Thursday, December 11, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It would be outrageous and simply unacceptable for members of Congress to go home to their families when tens of millions of working-class families in this country are facing economic desperation."


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U.S. Sen David Perdue (R-GA) and Sen Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) speaks at a campaign event to supporters at a restaurant on November 13, 2020 in Cumming, Georgia. There is a runoff election between Loeffler and Democratic opponent Raphael Warnock scheduled for Jan. 5, along with a second Senate runoff between Republican incumbent David Perdue and Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff. (Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images).

by Miles Mogulescu
When police (and teachers and firefighters and other essential state and local government workers) are defunded and fired in the next few months, blame it on Republicans like Purdue and Loeffler.



Rep. Debra Haaland (D-NM). (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Mike Lux
It would be a big disappointment to the environmentalists, progressives, all those members of Congress who supported her, and the tribes Haaland organized and mobilized to help elect Joe Biden to overlook such a well-qualified candidate for his Cabinet.



US President Donald Trump speaks at the Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit on December 08, 2020 in Washington, DC. The president signed an executive order stating the US would provide vaccines to Americans before aiding other nations. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

by Jeffrey C. Isaac
Trump still threatens us, and discussing the election in the past tense is stupid.



Since leaving public office in 2016, Vilsack spent the last four years in a cushy million dollar a year job cozying up to corporate dairy processors at the Dairy Export Council. During Vilsack’s tenure, dairy farmers went broke at an alarming rate. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

by Bryce Oates, Jake Davis
If progressives ever want to gain more votes in rural America, they must rid the Democratic Party of the Corporate Agribusiness stranglehold over everything rural and strike fear into any politician who attempts to pander to those interests.



Trump and Mnuchin just don’t like the look of the Iranian government so they are arbitrarily making the lives of ordinary Iranians miserable. (Photo: Medea Benjamin)

by Juan Cole
Iran suffers the worst pandemic outbreak in the Middle East.


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