She Was Enslaved by Salvadoran Guerrillas. US Judges Say That Makes Her Ineligible for Asylum.
A man wears a shirt with the Spanish initials of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, a left-wing guerrilla group, in San Salvador in 1989.Mario Ruiz/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. She watched as Salvadoran guerrillas made her husband dig his own grave and then murdered him. She was forced to cook,…
The Real Russia Scandal Is Hiding in Plain Sight. Yet Trump May Get Away With It.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this week, I wrote a piece, “Donald Trump Is Getting Away With the Biggest Scandal in American History,” that struck a chord with a lot of people. And I’ve been thinking a lot about where we go from here, because demonstrating that Trump is…
Why the Trump Administration is Treating Immigration Detainees Like Criminals
Suspected illegal border crossers at Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, in 2012. Ross D. Franklin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In an unexpected and unusual move, Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it plans to transfer 1,600 of its detainees to federal prisons. The agency says a surge…
Donald Trump Takes Aim at Pre-Existing Conditions
Jim West via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration’s desperate desire to deprive Americans of health care entered a new phase tonight when Donald Trump personally approved a decision by the Justice Department not to defend Obamacare against state lawsuits: In a brief filed in a Texas…
It’s Not Just the US Where Suicide Rates Are on the Rise
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every newspaper in America seems to be highlighting the current issue of Vital Signs, in which the CDC announced that suicide rates have gone up by more than 30 percent in half of all states since 1999: The biggest increases are in small-population states in…
Today I Bring You a Mini Health Care Mystery Starring . . . Tylenol!
Vince Talotta/The Toronto Star/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a peculiar health care story. It is extremely non-momentous, but entertaining in its own way. I’m not sure if there are any lessons to be drawn from it. Every Thursday I go to my local infusion center for chemotherapy. However,…