Dean Baker for Truthout: Facebook recently acknowledged it received more than $100,000 from Russian sources to purchase ads intended to defeat Hillary Clinton. Does Congress care enough about democracy to take steps toward making it illegal to carry phony political ads?
The new draft of the Affordable Care Act repeal plan includes extra funding for the home states of senators who have expressed concerns.
Nicholas Powers is the author of The Ground Below Zero: 9/11 to Burning Man, New Orleans to Darfur, Haiti to Occupy Wall Street, published by Upset Press. He is an associate professor of English at SUNY Old Westbury and has been writing for Truthout since 2011. His article, "Killing the Future: The Theft of Black Life" in the Truthout anthology Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? coalesces his years of reporting on police brutality.
