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A proposed single-payer health care system in New York state is economically viable and could insure a million people currently without coverage, according to a study from RAND Corp. released Wednesday. The analysis, which looks at the New York Health Act, was commissioned by the New York State Health Foundation. It makes a number of…
On Tuesday evening, the dark recesses of the Internet lit up with talk of politics. “Tampa rally, live coverage,” wrote “Dan,” posting a link to President Trump’s Tampa speech in a thread on 8chan, an anonymous image board also known as Infinitechan or Infinitychan, which might be best described as the unglued twin of better-known…
Good morning. How did you celebrate National Avocado Day? Shamefully, I forgot, so my plans to bathe in a tub of guac will have to wait until…National Guacamole Day, which Google tells me takes place on Sept. 16. Mark your calendars. Chipotle might also have been wishing it had waited until September. The Mexican grill restaurant…
In an ultra-rich-person moment at his latest forever-campaign rally in Tampa on Tuesday night, President Trump claimed you need photo ID to buy groceries in this country as part of a meandering argument for voter ID laws. Trump started by telling his crowd, where conspiracy theorists and Jim Acosta haters were unsurprisingly well represented, that…