Libby Watson

@libbycwatson

Outside of Wall Street's cosseted elites, there is no one in the world who could possibly want this candidacy to happen.

Iowa and New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation status is antithetical to the Democratic party's stated values.

Like many uber-wealthy men before him, Michael Bloomberg labors under the delusion that only he can save us.

Amazon's efforts to manipulate Seattle's city council race show that wealthy individuals and companies are threats to democracy.

Warren's plan to pay for Medicare for All has sparked a conversation over how much we spend on health care, instead of how well we spend it.

As his ALS intensifies, the prominent single-payer activist is finding new ways to influence the politics of health care.

The president's supporters may fantasize about murdering journalists, but financial-sector privateers are the ones killing the industry.

The former vice president wants to bring back the least popular part of the Affordable Care Act and no one seems to want to ask why.

The health care plans competing against Medicare for All are benefiting from a lack of scrutiny.

The Democratic frontrunner missed a chance to do something truly revolutionary.

Journalists can occasionally help the victims of the health care industry's predations, but without major reform these abuses will continue.

The political establishment rediscovers the benefit of Red-baiting and xenophobia to preserve the health care industry's buckrakers.

It does your readers no good to keep them at a remove from the partisan politics that built this calamitous system.

John Solomon's role in laundering Trump’s Ukraine scandal is just the latest black mark on the dodgy D.C. newspaper.

Democrats continue to entrench their support for a health care system in which class warfare is a pre-existing condition.

If Republicans want to weaponize every appearance of corruption, there's a simple way to disarm them.

After a nine month effort to produce a bill that Trump might support, it looks like Nancy Pelosi outfoxed herself.

Short on details and long on naïvete, the South Bend mayor aims to leave the status quo unruffled.

The newly embattled Supreme Court justice has nothing to fear from a party that's terrified of wielding power.

The Democratic debate reveals that the vice president has only a shaky grasp on his competitors' plans—as well as his own.