White House Strikes Landmark Deal to Cut Drug Costs
Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa USA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Thursday, the Biden administration announced that—after months of negotiations—it had finally struck a deal with prescription drug companies to slash the prices of some of Medicare’s most expensive medications, prescriptions for which currently cost…
Medicare for All May Not Be the Poison Pill Biden and Buttigieg Are Banking on
Bernie Sanders points at Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg during a Democratic presidential primary on February 19, 2020, in Las Vegas.John Locher/AP South Carolinians who turned on the television this week likely watched a 30-second ad in which Pete Buttigieg explains that some of his opponents in the Democratic presidential primary “say it’s Medicare for…
Jessica Cisneros Could Be the Next AOC. (But Don’t Tell Her That.)
Jessica CisnerosJosh Huskin Jessica Cisneros needed to find a dentist. When she decided to challenge Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar in the upcoming Democratic primary, Cisneros quit her job and moved back in with her parents in Laredo to save money. She’d bought her own insurance plan after turning 26 last May, but it didn’t include…
The Untold Story of the Progressive Insurgency That Is Remaking Congress
Mother Jones illustration; GettyIt was like the first day of camp, but with blazers and better snacks. Three dozen of the most liberal lawmakers in the House of Representatives were gathered on the fifth floor of a House office building on the afternoon of January 10. New members, sworn into office just one week earlier as…