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Trump claims to have saved Obamacare and beaten COVID. The truth is exactly the opposite on both counts.
In Texas, maternal mortality is soaring. Blame the antiabortion movement
Trump describes America in the 1890s as ‘the wealthiest it ever was.’ In fact, it was a decade of Depression, and a dark age for the Republican Party
The FDA claimed these clinics were plying patients with an illegal drug derived from their stem cells. A federal court agrees.
Column: American economists and consumers got inflation wrong during its recent surge. They still do
Fed and Treasury officials were ridiculed for predicting that the post-pandemic surge in inflation would be ‘transitory.’ But they were right all along.
Election officials nationwide fear that the USPS will lose ballots or deliver them late. They have good reasons to be concerned
The Trump campaign is promoting a healthcare solution that was tried and shown to be a failure. It would place people with preexisting conditions at mortal risk.
Sean Kirkpatrick ran the government’s investigation into UFOs, so he knows a lot about how misinformation and disinformation become grist for Congress and an unthinking news media
Column: Trump and his family jump into crypto, which the FBI calls a hive of ‘pervasive’ criminality
A new FBI report says the U.S. is the world center of crypto fraud. Donald Trump and his family just announced a big crypto venture.
JD Vance claims he “created stories” about Haitian immigrants to get the news media’s attention. Citing the ‘inner truth’ of lies for propaganda purposes is a technique perfected by the Nazis.
