Author: Mike Malloy

Medicare for All – Mike Malloy

Medicare for All – Mike Malloy

Posted by | Sep 19, 2017 | , , |

This is a pivotal moment in American history. Do we, as a nation, join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee comprehensive health care to every person as a human right? Or do we maintain a system that is enormously expensive, wasteful and bureaucratic, and is designed to maximize profits for big insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, Wall Street and medical equipment suppliers? We remain the only major country on earth that allows chief executives and stockholders in the health care industry to get incredibly rich, while tens of millions of people suffer because they can’t get the...

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US Deputy Attorney General Warns About the Right-Wing Terror Threat Trump Ignores – Mike Malloy

US Deputy Attorney General Warns About the Right-Wing Terror Threat Trump Ignores – Mike Malloy

Posted by | Sep 6, 2017 | , , |

Last week I reported on concerns among US law enforcement and security leaders about a rising threat of domestic right-wing terrorism. For some, those fears were exacerbated by President Donald Trump’s equivocating response to the deadly car attack earlier this month by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville, Virginia. As one high-level US official told me, Trump’s handling of the crisis “has been hard to view as anything other than a disaster. There are real concerns about where it leads the country.” Trump also has a history of downplaying, if not downright ignoring right-wing terror attacks, as I’ve also documented. But...

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Trump Makes Policy Pledge to Senator Investigating Son – Mike Malloy

Trump Makes Policy Pledge to Senator Investigating Son – Mike Malloy

Posted by | Sep 5, 2017 | , |

Donald Trump called a senior Republican senator from Iowa on Wednesday whose congressional committee is investigating his son, Donald Trump Jr, and promised him critical federal support for the biofuel ethanol, a key issue for the lawmaker. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate judiciary committee and a major advocate of the ethanol industry, announced on Twitter that he had received a phone call from Trump and had been assured by the US president that Trump was “pro ethanol” and was “standing by his campaign promise” to support the biofuel. The phone call came less than a day after...

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Transgender Service Members Can Stay For Now – Mike Malloy

Transgender Service Members Can Stay For Now – Mike Malloy

Posted by | Sep 5, 2017 | , , |

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is leaving an Obama-era policy on transgender military service members largely intact, saying he needs input from an expert panel to determine the best way to implement President Trump’s ban that would keep transgender people from serving in the U.S. military. Trump barred transgender would-be recruits from signing up, but he gave Mattis discretion to decide the status of transgender people who are already serving. Mattis says he’ll convene the panel from the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, with the goal of promoting “military readiness, lethality, and unit cohesion” — while...

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