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Nancy Pelosi Wants to Pump the Brakes on Medicare for All

Melina Mara/Xinhua/ZUMA How does Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) feel about two of the three leading Democratic presidential candidates campaigning on a Medicare-for-all health care system? Not great, Bob. Not great at all. In an interview with Bloomberg News published on Saturday, Pelosi argued for a more modest expansion on the status quo,…

People Keep Cutting Through Trump’s Border Wall

Matt York/AP Earlier this year President Donald J. Trump, the noted classicist and civil engineer, told an audience assembled near the Mexican border that millennia of human history has shown that “there are some things that work…and a wall works. Nothing like a wall.” Alas, a new report from the Washington Post suggests that Trump’s vaunted…