Libby Watson

@libbycwatson

Voters need to see the Democratic nominee out in the world, not hiding behind musicians who were popular a half-century ago.

Small-ball innovations like telemedicine expansion can’t patch a system that’s set up to fail.

A majority of the president’s base believes the coronavirus death toll is acceptable. What more needs to be said at this week’s convention?

Biden says we don’t need radical ideas like Medicare for All to fix our broken system. But his more modest reforms may already be dead on arrival.

In what may be his final bow on the presidential campaign stage, Sanders tried to build a bridge between his movement and the man who bested it.

Too bad they don’t see similar urgency in the millions of unemployed Americans who face another week without $600 in assistance.

Beneath society’s plutocratic layer, America is not as united in the face of crisis as we like to pretend.

America is putting an awful lot of trust in a pharmaceutical industry that hasn’t earned it.

Trump’s threat to delay the election over mail-in ballots is consistent with decades of anti-voter campaigns by the GOP.

The Trump administration: They’re just like us!

It seems clear that if voters want lawmakers to end this galling practice, they will have to first end some lawmakers’ careers.

Why the president’s claim that he got “all 35” questions right on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment is meaningless.

Unidentified federal agents in Portland detained protesters without cause—a predictable consequence of law enforcement becoming more like the military, and vice versa.

Brad Parscale’s demotion will do nothing to fix the president’s self-inflicted problems.

Five million have lost coverage amid the pandemic—a number that’s expected to triple by year’s end. But the party leadership isn’t reacting as though it’s a crisis.

The next president will be tasked with fixing the damage Trump has done, but they will need to do much more than that.

The New York Times has either made a grave category error or they’ve given up on the idea of solving America’s health insurance problem.

America’s health care system is doing what it does best: rigging the game to extract maximum profits from an ongoing catastrophe.

How much longer will the cops be allowed to tell flamboyant lies about their oppression at the hands of service-sector workers?

Democratic politicians have patiently listened to protesters’ demands and have resolutely vowed to do the opposite.