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TODAY'S TOP STORIES - August 7, 2017
The Essentials: 11 Steps States Could Take To Rein In Healthcare Costs While Building Toward Single-Payer Universal Coverage
By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
The biggest cost drivers are drug prices and the medical billing industrial complex. READ MORE»
Trump’s Malignant Pattern: He Woos People, Rips them Off and then Abandons Them—and He Won’t Stop
By Paul Rosenberg, Salon
Trump has followed the same manipulative script over and over again, in politics as in business. We're the marks READ MORE»
Anti-Vaxxer Dog Owners Are Now Putting Their—and Your—Pets' Health at Risk
By Kali Holloway, AlterNet
The anti-science crowd has infected a whole new community. READ MORE»
DPA Study: New York City Remains the World's Marijuana Arrest Capital, and It's Still Mainly Black and Brown People Getting Popped
By Phillip Smith, AlterNet
In bid to defend thousands of racially biased pot arrests, de Blasio attacks drug reformers. READ MORE»
Rampant White Supremacy at the White House As Trump Tries to Distract His Base
By Amanda Marcotte, Salon
Trump's overt racism isn't aimed at liberals—it's about distracting his base away from the Russia scandal. READ MORE»
The Cronies Behind the Energy Industry's Deliberate Misinformation Campaigns
By Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Dick Russell, Hot Books
Authors Dick Russell and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expose the energy moguls covering up catastrophic climate change for their own gain. READ MORE»
Trump's Main Business—Golf—Is the Symbol of All That Is Retrograde and Exclusionary in American Life
By Robert Lipsyte, TomDispatch
For successful greedheads and their wannabes, golf is the most "sacred" of sports. READ MORE»
Trump’s Immigration Ploy Is to Pit Black and Brown Workers Against Each Other
By Isiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future
The overwhelming majority of African Americans don’t want Trump's faux paternalism at the expense of their immigrant brothers and sisters. READ MORE»
'An Inconvenient Sequel' Conveniently Leaves Out One Big Truth
By Rachel Krantz, AlterNet
It's our diets, stupid. READ MORE»
Why the NAACP Said 'Enough' to School Privatization
By Rann Miller, AlterNet
School privatization has allowed public officials to wash their hands of the obligation to educate children of color, especially the poor. READ MORE»
Doctor Murdered for NOT Prescribing Opioids
By Victoria Kim, The Fix
The doctor was shot in a hospital parking lot by the enraged spouse of a chronic pain patient. READ MORE»
Here’s How Trump Transferred Wealth to His Son While Avoiding the Usual Taxes
By Derek Kravitz, Cezary Podkul, Will Parker , ProPublica
Donald Trump sold two condos to Eric in April 2016 at a steep discount. But he doesn’t appear to be on the hook for gift taxes. READ MORE»
Americans Might Be Having Less Sex Due to ‘Helicopter Parenting’: Study
By Shreesha Ghosh, International Business Times
Why are American adults having less sex compared to what they were having around 20 years ago? READ MORE»
Reflections on the 'Dangerous Delusions of Richard Dawkins'
By Jeremy Lent, AlterNet
An AlterNet article stirs up a hornet’s nest of controversy. READ MORE»
What Happens If You Smoke Cannabis For A Year to Relieve Chronic Pain
By Brea Mosley, The Fresh Toast
Hint: It’s safe and effective READ MORE»
Thousands of Students Were Defrauded by For-Profit Colleges. DeVos Hasn't Provided Debt Relief to a Single One
By Brett Robertson , Media Matters
DeVos hasn’t approved any applications for debt relief from defrauded students. Media reports reveal the human cost. READ MORE»
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