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.
Jonathan Franklin is an author and reporter based in Santiago, Chile. He writes frequently for The Guardian and is author of 33 Men, the chronicle of 33 Chilean miners trapped underground. He is currently working on a book about solutions to PTSD in US war vets. He can be contacted at [email protected]
