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The Israel lobby is spending millions to defeat progressive Democrats in primary races: columnist
Amy Goodman, - AlterNet
_Stephan: I have always had very mixed feelings about Israel because, after centuries of being ostracized and forced to live in ghettos, the Jews of Israel have done what was done to them to the Palestinians. You would think that from those centuries of mistreatment the Jews would have learned that such s ... ⌘ Read more_
Obamacare back in court as Texans challenge coverage for STDs and HIV care
Alice Miranda Ollstein, Healthcare Reporter - Politico
_Stephan: Under Greg Abbott and the Republican legislature, Texas has become a kind of failed state notable, to me at least, for the sheer nastiness of its social policies, and how hurtful they are to people living in Texas. Here is an example of what I mean. And yet, the people of Texas voted these people into office, ... ⌘ Read more_
Bank of America Memo, Revealed: “We Hope” Conditions for American Workers Will Get Worse
Ken Klippenstein and Jon Schwarz, Staff Writer - The Intercept
_Stephan: America is not a capitalist nation, it is a vampire capitalist nation, and there is an important difference. Norway is a capitalist country but within the context of making wellbeing the first priority of government. From the Reagan era onwards the goal of the Republican Party h ... ⌘ Read more_
Groups launch last-ditch effort against drug pricing changes
Jessie Hellmann, - Roll Call
_Stephan: American drug prices are a prominent manifestation of Vampire Capitalism and the corruption of Congress. They are so high that when you go to other countries and have to fill a prescription you are stunned by the price difference, particularly for drugs essential to someone's wellbeing like insulin. This is what having profit as your one social priority produces ... ⌘ Read more_
Black women who once hated guns are embracing them as crime soars
Peter Jamison, Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: I have been waiting for this to happen and predicted it would. Because the murder weapon industry controls the Republicans in Congress, and their MAGAt base thinks guns are good, we are seeing a growing number of people arming themselves, including communities that previously scorned and avoided becoming involved with weapons. The resul ... ⌘ Read more_
The backlash to Christianity: Republicans are now panicked — but they only have themselves to blame
AMANDA MARCOTTE, Senior Politics Writer - Salon
_Stephan: I consider this report to be good news. Christofascism has destroyed Christianity and produced this response in the young. Gender equality, racial equality, a fact-based (science) view, acceptance of any variety of sexual or romantic interactions are the emerging trends. ... ⌘ Read more_
House passes bill to ban assault weapons
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_Stephan:_
The House on Friday passed a bill to ban assault weapons, securing a significant victory for Democrats following a spate of mass shootings across the country and marking the first time lawmakers have approved a prohibition on the popular firearms in more than two decades.
The legislation, titled the Assault ... ⌘ Read more
‘It’s plunder’: Mexico desperate for water while drinks companies use billions of litres
Lillian Perlmutter , - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: This story is from Mexico, but I think it is a first Robin; there is going to be much more of this. In parts of the United States, and in many other parts of many other countries as well, water is going to become a major societal factor._
_Stephan: I have done numerous articles about the growing drive for secession in Red states, and here is a proposal of how it might be done, and what it would look like from a think tank in Alabama. Mainstream media isn't paying much attention to the Great Schism Trend but I think it should be taken quite seriously. The rise of White christofascist -- its not really C ... ⌘ Read more_
GOP Opposition to Drug Pricing Bill Shows Scope of Big Pharma’s Grip on Congress
Sasha Abramsky, - truthout
_Stephan: This is what Republican political whoring looks like. And thanks to those Congressional Republicans you are getting screwed weekly or monthly by Big Pharma._
_Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mc ... ⌘ Read more_
Senate Republicans block bill to help veterans exposed to burn pits
Eugene Scott and Mike DeBonis , Reporters - The Washington Post
_Stephan: Speaking as a veteran I must say I do not see how any veteran can vote Republican. I just don't know what to say to a man or woman veteran who votes against their own wellbeing, and yet I know millions will._
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-28-at-6.37.59- ... ⌘ Read more
Scientists establish link between religious fundamentalism and brain damage
Bobby Azarian, - AlterNet
_Stephan: From my own research and everything I have read in the academic literature Over 15 years ago I became convinced that what I have called the psychophysics of politics was what the Republican Party had decided to use to create their base. I got to this by watching what the oligarchs, like the Koch brothers, who control the MAGAt cult had ... ⌘ Read more_
GOP colluding with Big Pharma behind closed doors to undermine bill lowering prescription costs
Jake Johnson, - Salon
_Stephan: What demonstrates the power of the psychophysiology of Politics being used by the Republicans is things like this. You would think that no voter would support a senator who made sure they paid multiple times more for their drugs than they would pay in any other country. And yet the Republican voters ... ⌘ Read more_
Republican’s top ally says Jews aren’t welcome in the conservative movement: “This is an explicitly Christian country.”**
Brad Reed, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: Here is yet another example of the truth of the Republican Party, and how powerful the psychophysiology of politics can be. How could there possibly be a Jew who would vote for Mastriano? And yet, I predict, there will be thousands of them. ... ⌘ Read more_
Alabama Takes From the Poor and Gives to the Rich**
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, Investigative Reporter - The New York Times
_Stephan: Alabama, a reliably Republican state would be a third-world country, as this investigative journalism describes, if it were not part of the United States. And amazingly the voters of Alabama are so manipulated by racism and fear that they reliably vote Republican and keep this failed state going even though it makes their liv ... ⌘ Read more_
Red states are building a nation within a nation
Ronald Brownstein, - CNN
_Stephan: I clearly am not the only analyst who sees the implications of the Great Schism Trend. If you look at the social outcome data it is obvious that life for ordinary people in Red states is significantly inferior to life in Blue states. States like Texas, for instance, run by a fascist oligarchy is essentially a failed state, implementing policies remarkably like Russia under Putin. Personall ... ⌘ Read more_
Democrats blast Commerce for overseeing heavy increase in gun exports
Rachel Oswald, Staff Writer - Roll Call
_Stephan: The United States, because of the control the weapons industry has over the federal government, is the world's largest death merchant. Sadly, as this article describes the Biden administration has been woefully remiss in not changing this, which it could._
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen ... ⌘ Read more
No place to hide? 52% fear they’re in danger every day — even at home!
Chris Melore, - Study Finds
_Stephan: This is a major trend getting almost no media coverage or discussion in the Congress. Americans are frightened, over half of us "feel like they’re in imminent danger at least once a day." This is shaping our culture in a very negative way._
_Stephan: Here is what climate change is already doing to American cities. This is not something that is going to happen, it is happening._
_Temperature hit 102F in San Antonio, ... ⌘ Read more_
Can we stop the 27 men who really run America?**
Thom Hartmann, - Raw Story / Commentary
_Stephan: A few days ago I ran a similar piece on this. I have been covering this trend since the Citizens United Supreme Court decision made it possible, and am increasingly concerned about its implications. Is Thom Hartmann exaggerating when he says 27 billionaires are the actual powers running the country? I don't think he is and there is no question that the United States is becoming, ... ⌘ Read more_
Revealed: oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years
Damian Carrington, Environment Editor - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Several of the billionaires that have become so powerful in America derive their wealth from carbon energy. And the profit derived from what amounts to an addiction industry is so great that few people really comprehend how great it is, and what it can do in a comprised country like the United States. The sooner t ... ⌘ Read more_
CEOs average pay in 2021 was 324 times higher than employees: report
BRAD DRESS, - The Hill
_Stephan: In 2022, the U.S. has 20.2 millionaires. This is not a small group of people and their wealth is going to go down through generations. Then there are 750 billionaires. We have completely changed the economics of our society, and most do not recognize this has happened because their fears, racism, and resentments are being played like an instrument by th ... ⌘ Read more_
New Marquette Law School Poll National Survey Finds Approval of the Supreme Court at New Lows, With Strong Partisan Differences Over Abortion and Gun Rights
CHARLES FRANKLIN, - Marquette University Law school
_Stephan: Here is some reliable data about giving us a profile of American society. It is not very pretty. We are in a great schism that is creating two differe ... ⌘ Read more_
This is what it looks like when women become second-class citizens
Jennifer Rubin, Columnist - The Washington Post
_Stephan: It is hard to believe in the second decade of the 21st century that the Red states are reverting to a 19th century view of women and that large numbers of Republican women are acquiescing to what their party is doing to their status. But they are._
_Stephan: The Republican Party has been trying to dismantle public education in the United States for years. They have two goals. Keep schools segregated and make sure children of color get fewer resources, and have poorer programs; make publica education a process of indoctrination not education about facts. This is all part of making Ameri ... ⌘ Read more_
With Few Able and Fewer Willing, U.S. Military Can’t Find Recruits
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_Stephan: From this report, "Less than a quarter of young American adults are physically fit to enlist and have no disqualifying criminal record, a proportion that has shrunk steadily in recent years. And shifting attitudes toward military service mean that now only about one in 10 young people say they would even consider it." When we transformed the American military from an eli ... ⌘ Read more_
America has an innovation problem. The H-1B visa backlog is making it worse.
Miranda Dixon, - Vox
_Stephan: The christofascists with their fear of the other, and of being replaced, whatever that means to each individual, have tried to limit immigration. In the 2019 Fortune 500 list 44.6 percent, or 223 companies, in the Fortune 500 were founded by immigrants or their children. Millions of Americans work for those immigrants who have created the j ... ⌘ Read more_
Valuing Nature Through Lens of Economic Growth and Profit Puts It at Risk, Assessment Finds
Chris McDermott, - EcoWatch
_Stephan: The main challenge humanity faces, in my opinion, is the existential issue of what actually motivates most human decisions, and that is presently based on only one thing, profit. If we are to survive as a species we must change. All decisions must be based on the recognition that we live in a matrix of ... ⌘ Read more_
U.S. is on Track to Fall Short of Emissions Reductions Goals, Report Finds
Sharon Zhang, News Writer - truthout
_Stephan: Yesterday I published a report and made my scathing comments about Manchin's blocking the Biden plan for climate change remediation. Today I publish a report showing that we are falling far short of our goals on emission reductions. What this means is that your children and their children, and we ourselves come to that, are going ... ⌘ Read more_
How Climate Change Is Affecting Soil Microbiomes
Amanda Abrams, - Modern Farmer
_Stephan: Something like 40 years ago two close friends, Christopher Bird, and Peter Tompkins, after writing the best seller Secret Life of Plants, wrote a second book together Secrets of the Soil, in which they argued and presented evidence showing that humanity's future was tied to the quality of microorganisms in the soil. At the time futurists and people from the industrial chemical monocu ... ⌘ Read more_
It’s Time to Stop Living the American Scam**
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_Stephan: This, I think, is sadly true. It is part of the oligarch takeover trend that has happened in the United States._
_Illustration by Sebastian Koenig_
Ten years ago, I wrote an essay called “ [The Busy Trap](https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the- ... ⌘ Read more
Manchin’s decision provokes fury over potential for warmer world
RACHEL FRAZIN and ZACK BUDRYK, - The Hill
_Stephan: Think about this: The United States and China are the world's two greatest polluters. It is desperately important that both countries dramatically reduce their damage to the environment. Today, one man, Joe Manchin, one of the most corrupt members of the Senate, a man who all his political life has whored for the carbon industries, which has ... ⌘ Read more_
Montana GOP lawmaker informs colleagues the womb ‘serves no specific purpose’ to the life of a woman
Tom Boggioni, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: It is amazing to me that Republicans now no longer even attempt to cover up or deny their conviction that women are second class and their belief that Republican men should be able to dictate not only what women do with their bodies, but even their right to travel. In fact, it ... ⌘ Read more_
‘They Want to Hold Women Captive’: GOP Blocks Bill Protecting Right to Travel for Abortion
JESSICA CORBETT, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: It is unclear to me how any woman who thinks she is the equal of any man could vote Republican since the Republican Party's position is clearly that men are dominant and women are subordinate and second class. Yet millions of women are Republicans so I assume they also believe their gender is subordina ... ⌘ Read more_
The GOP Just Asked an Authoritarian to Headline Its Most Important Conference
David Gilbert, Senior Reporter - Vice News
_Stephan: I don't know how the Republican Party could make their intentions for American governance clearer than they have by inviting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a notorious christofascist, to be their keynote speaker at their most important party conference. I do not understand how anyone who supports American de ... ⌘ Read more_
11 House Republicans attended a White House meeting with Trump to strategize about overturning the election results on January 6. Six of them later asked for pardons.
Bryan Metzger, - Business Insider
_Stephan: The Republican Party is no longer interested in ethical behavior amongst its Congressional members or, indeed ethical government of any kind. What th ... ⌘ Read more_
“It’s Incredibly Far-reaching”: Medical Students on the Roe Reversal
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_Stephan:_
_‘With the restrictive laws, you likely will see a behavioral change, that people will make decisions about where they choose to train, where they choose to practice.’ Illustration: The Guardian_
For students pursuing their medical educat ... ⌘ Read more
Robert Reich: Agricultural ‘monopolies are slowly killing rural America’**
Brandon Gage, - AlterNet
_Stephan: Most Americans I talk with seem to believe that American agriculture is based on small family farms. Lovely image, but completely wrong. To quote Robert Reich, "Just four firms control 85% of all beef, 66% of all pork, and 54% of all poultry. This degree of monopolization is hurting farmers — and you. Monopolists control nearly every part of the ... ⌘ Read more_
Fox News’ Laura Ingraham escalates the GOP’s war on learning: “Time to defund government education”**
Amanda Marcotte, Senior Politics Writer - Salon
_Stephan: America's public education for generations was one of the nation's greatest points of pride. But, since the Reagan administration, the Republican Party has been trying to gut public education and to shift tax dollars to religious and charter schools where children can be i ... ⌘ Read more_
States With Abortion Bans Risk Losing Their Economic Edge
Alexander Burns, National Political Correspondent - The New York Times
_Stephan: I see an important trend developing as a result of Roe being overturned. Republican governance which on the basis of hard social outcome data can be proven to always be inferior to Democratic governance is inflicting yet another degradation of society in the Red states. We are beginning to see corporation beginning to rethink ... ⌘ Read more_
Red States Plot Use of Vigilantes to Restrict Abortion Seekers’ Travel
Candice Bernd, Senior Editor Staff Reporter - truthout
_Stephan: The hysterical anti-choice crowd who are committed to keeping women in second-class status are now planning to try and stop girls and women from leaving Red states to go to Blue states where they can get the medical procedures or pills they need. And the mechanism for doing this is vigilantes. Fanatics who hope to make ... ⌘ Read more_
Abortion and College Admissions: Roe v. Wade Decision Makes Students Reconsider School Choices
MELISSA MALAMUT, Staff Writer - Teen Vogue
_Stephan: This piece was written prior to the announcement of the Supreme Court Roe decision but after the leaked opinion. As you can see the abortion issue was already affecting the college choices of fertile young women. Over time this is going to have a significant effect on the enrollment o ... ⌘ Read more_
Ohio Republicans’ attempted erasure of a 10-year-old rape victim is incredibly sick and disturbed**
David Dewitt, - Ohio Capital Journal
_Stephan: It is hard for me to tell you how loathsome I find people like Jim Jordan, David Yost, Mike DeWine, and a host of other Republicans. These people put their own advancement and their own power above decency, American democracy, or any concern for girls who are raped. You ha ... ⌘ Read more_
US emissions inflict almost $2 Trillion in damage to other countries: study
ZACK BUDRYK, - The Hill
_Stephan: Let's make a list of what the United States leads the world in: most people incarcerated, most expensive health care, highest maternal mortality, highest infant mortality, most money spent on the military, and leading polluter. I could go on, but I think you get my point. That's not what the politicians of either party tell you, but those ... ⌘ Read more_
Manchin, Playing to the Home Crowd, Is Fighting Electric Cars to the End
Coral Davenport, Lisa Friedman and Hiroko Tabuchi, Reporters - The New York Times
_Stephan: Joe Manchin, the senator from West Virginia is, in my opinion, the most loathsome Democrat in Congress. He's not really a Democrat he is a working whore for the carbon industries that made him a millionaire. He damages the wellbeing of the people of West Virginia almost daily, and yet they ... ⌘ Read more_
Gov. Newsom signs bill allowing suits against gun makers for negligence
JEREMY B. WHITE, Staff Writer - Politico
_Stephan: With the exception of Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema, most Democrats have an interest in promoting wellbeing, and this is excellent news about holding the gun industry responsible for how their murder weapons are used. Personally, I think Gavin Newsom would be an excellent Democratic Party candidate for president in 2024._
We don’t need no education: Now Arizona says teachers don’t require college degrees
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_Stephan:_
_Republican MAGAt Arizona Governor Doug Ducey_ _Credit: Getty_
Last week, just days after the Arizona legislature passed the [most expansive school voucher law](https://www.salon.com/2022/07/01/schools-out-f ... ⌘ Read more
Ken Griffin Spent $54 Million Fighting a Tax Increase for the Rich. Secret IRS Data Shows It Paid Off for Him.
Paul Kiel and Mick Dumke, Business and Consumer Finance Reporter \\| Politics and Government Reporter - ProPublica
_Stephan: The Republican Party beginning with the Reagan administration has rewritten and rigged the American tax code so it favors the very rich, and makes life more difficult for middle class ... ⌘ Read more_
Green energy jobs are on the rise as fossil fuel companies lose workers
Chad Small, Data Fellow - Grist
_Stephan: Here is some excellent good news. It describes the change that is occurring in the labor market between carbon energy and non-carbon energy._
At least in terms of the job market, 2021 was a good year f ... ⌘ Read more
26,000 Kids Could Be Alive Today If US Had Same Gun Mortality Rate as Canada**
KENNY STANCIL, - Common Dreams
_Stephan: What kind of country finds it acceptable and normal that tens of thousands of children and teens are murdered by guns, and decides that guns are more important than the country's children. Only one country, The United States of America._
_Stephan: Amongst the nations of the European Union fostering wellbeing is part of the purpose of governance. In contrast, in the United States the purpose of social policies is to produce the ... ⌘ Read more_
Americans don’t feel safer despite nation’s high incarceration rate
Matt Higgins, - Study Finds
_Stephan: President Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat, declared a national "War on Crime" on March 8, 1965, shortly after his declaration of a War on Poverty. Johnson labeled crime a crippling epidemic hindering the progress of the nation. Republicans loved the idea so much that starting with Nixon they pushed the idea of a "war on crime" claiming that more incarcerat ... ⌘ Read more_
Letting Medicare Negotiate Drug Prices Would Save US Nearly $290 Billion: CBO
Jon Queally, - Common Dreams
_Stephan:
Just as we lead the world on imprisoning our citizens, so we lead the world in the cost of pharmaceuticals. You will notice, of course, that both of these are strongly negative leaderships. Because our healthcare system is not about fostering wellbeing it is strictly about greed and profit, the prices Americans pay for their presc ... ⌘ Read more_
‘Disturbing’: weedkiller ingredient tied to cancer found in 80% of US urine samples
Carey Gillam, Staff Writer - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: If you, or someone you know, uses Roundup do yourself or them a service and get rid of it. Do not keep it on your property, do not use it. Why? Here is the hard evidence on how dangerous this product is. Most developed countries in the world have outlawed it. But in the United States where profit is mo ... ⌘ Read more_
Laura Ingraham attacks the ‘madness’ of public schools in call to ‘defund government education’**
David Badash, - AlterNet
_Stephan: If you don't spend time in the world of MAGAt Media, and why would any rational compassionate human being do something that toxic, you will have seen that MAGAt Republicans are doing everything they can to end public education in the United States because they want children indoctrinated, just as the ... ⌘ Read more_
Covid vaccines saved more than 200,000 lives in the US over nine months: study
MATTHEW ROZSA, - Salon
_Stephan: Think about this: 319,000 died because they chose not to get vaccinated. In contrast, as this report describes, over 200,000 lives were saved in just nine months because they chose to get vaccinated. I confess that looking at this data, to me, not getting vaccinated is moronic and puts your life at risk. As I have written (see SR arch ... ⌘ Read more_
Air Pollution Kills 10 Million People a Year. Why Do We Accept That as Normal?**
David Wallace-Wells, Columnist - The New York Times
_Stephan: Here is proof that profit is more important than people, and that is what is fundamentally wrong with human cultures, and why we are going to be so devastated by climate change._
_Bald eagles are a famous Endangered Species Act s ... ⌘ Read more_
California To Make Its Own Insulin, Lowering Costs For Diabetics
Lydia O'Connor, -
_Stephan: This is what Blue state governance by Demnocrats looks like. You would never see this in a Republican-governed Red state._
Monthly insulin costs range from $300 to $500 for many Americans. Credit: Simon Dawson / Reuters
California ... ⌘ Read more
The staggering scope of U.S. gun deaths goes far beyond mass shootings**
Mark Berman, Lenny Bernstein, Dan Keating, Andrew Ba Tran and Artur Galocha , Reporters - The Washington Post
_Stephan: There is no other nation in the developed world with these kinds of gun death statistics. That this goes on day after day, to a point where it has become normalized, by which I mean we constantly talk about it, but nothing ever gets done about it, tells t ... ⌘ Read more_
The Hell of Being Pregnant in Prison Is About to Get So Much Worse
SAMANTHA MICHAELS, - Mother Jones
_Stephan: The United States has the largest number of incarcerated people in the world, and an estimated 58,000 pregnant women are sent behind bars each year. Think about that. This article gives you a sense of their lives. Are you ashamed for your country? You should be. I certainly am._
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/20 ... ⌘ Read more
Dems’ climate and tax agenda to consume Congress in July
BURGESS EVERETT and MARIANNE LEVINE, - Politico
_Stephan: Here is a very good assessment of the upcoming struggle to do something meaningful with environmental remediation programs, healthcare, and taxes, and this time Schumer and Manchin are working together. I hope this turns into good news, but McConnell is going to try to block this, considering Democratic success injurious to the Republican possibility t ... ⌘ Read more_
The local news crisis is deepening America’s divides
Sara Fischer , - Axios
_Stephan: Speaking as a journalist who once worked for two major papers that now no longer exist I mourn what is happening to newspaper journalism. The thing that made newspapers special is that they covered local news, not as it is covered on social media with all the partisanship and misinformation but from a perspective of objective data. Editorial pages were biased to be sure, but news repo ... ⌘ Read more_
Inflation is making homelessness worse
Abha Bhattarai and Rachel Siegel, Economics Correspondent \\| Economics Reporter - The Washington Post
_Stephan: You would think that cities and towns would realize that homeless people are an enormous drain on local resources, and that law cost housing was not only the most compassionate and humane strategy, it was also the cheapest option. But no, American culture punishes people in dozens of ways for being poor, and we all pay a huge price ec ... ⌘ Read more_
Uvalde mayor says he fears a cover-up of investigation into school massacre and calls on Texas Gov. Abbott to intervene
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_Stephan: The Uvalde mass murder is being covered up. No one has been held accountable. Here is the current state of this tragic sorry situation._
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-08-at-12.32.59-AM.jpg?resize=770%2C436&ssl ... ⌘ Read more
Democrats’ Cowardice and Complicity in the Post-Roe World
Natasha Lennard, - The Intercept
_Stephan: I do not understand the Democrats, their weaknesses are so obvious, their leadership is so weak, their inability to understand that the voter profile is such that over a third of Americans vote their emotions. That is what Trump understood. They don't seem to understand that you have to touch people emotionally with a vision of America that excites them, makes them ... ⌘ Read more_
The Catholic church is dictating reproductive health care — even in blue states
MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, - Salon
_Stephan: Four out of the 10 largest health systems in the United States are Catholic. Very few people seem to know that. They are all beholden to the Ethical and Religious Directives of the Roman Catholic Church, and that means they do not permit abortions, nor do they support contraception. This has now become an important factor ... ⌘ Read more_