Dan Wright

Trump Administration To Keep Entitlements, Obamacare Plan Unknown

While Obamacare has largely proved to be a disaster, the Medicaid expansion was a pretty solid success given its objectives: create greater access to health services and improve health outcomes-and its modest cost overruns.

Dan Wright
By Dan Wright
Reince Priebus, Chair of the Republican National Committee, right, speaks as President-elect Donald Trump gives his acceptance speech during his election night rally, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, in New York. (AP/Julie Jacobson)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. President-elect Donald Trump’s chief of staff Reince Priebus says there are no plans to cut Social Security or Medicare. This was Trump’s position throughout the Republican primaries and general election. But Priebus was less blunt on whether the expansion of Medicaid brought by the Affordable Care

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The Pentagon Re-Packaged Al Qaeda As ‘Khorasan Group’ To Sell Attack On Syria

Only after the US conducted strikes in Syria against the Khorasan Group, national security officials began offering a “more nuanced picture” on the threat that verged on being outright defensive.

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By Dan Wright
Army Lt. Gen. William Mayville speaks about US operations in Syria, following U.S. military strikes against 17 separate targets connected to an al-Qaida cell in Syria known as the Khorasan Group, U.S. officials say, Sept. 23, 2014. (AP/Cliff Owen)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. United States officials misled the public about a Syrian terrorist group, the Khorasan Group, in the run up to air strikes in the country in 2014. The group was not new, as officials suggested, but essentially a group of reinforcements for the country’s Al Qaeda affiliate. In September 2014, just

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Will Trump Back Paul Ryan’s Plan To Destroy Medicare?

Trump’s populist economic message which included rolling back corporate trade agreements and preserving Social Security and Medicare, is at odds with one of Congress’ most important leaders, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.

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By Dan Wright
A sign supporting Medicare is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. President-elect Donald Trump ran an unorthodox campaign both in the Republican primaries and general election. Though undeniably offering some rather common conservative views on social issues, Trump also offered voters a populist economic message which included rolling back corporate trade agreements

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Economic Recovery Mostly A Myth For The 99 Percent

93 percent of U.S. counties haven’t recovered from the Great Recession according to the National Association of Counties.

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By Dan Wright
Marijo Beckman greeted Black Friday shoppers at a Boynton Beach,Fla. Walmar

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. The famous United States stock index known as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (or simply the Dow) flirted with approaching a historic high of 20,000. The index, which shows how the largest 30 companies publicly traded in the U.S. are performing, is considered a key indicator of how well U.S. business

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Steve Bannon Says Joining Goldman Sachs Is Like ‘Joining The Jesuits’

Despite Steve Bannon’s embrace of economic nationalism in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Bannon was singing the praises of Goldman Sachs as recently as 2012.

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By Dan Wright
Steve Bannon, campaign CEO for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, right, looks on during a national security meeting with advisors at Trump Tower, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. During his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump condemned lobbyists, Wall Street, and DC insiders, claiming he would “drain the swamp” and bring reform to Washington if elected. No company epitomizes the incestuous swampy relationship between Washington and Wall Street like Goldman Sachs. Nicknamed

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Goldman Sachs Endorses Hillary Clinton For President

For Goldman Sachs, was there really any other choice this cycle?

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By Dan Wright
Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, is greeted by Hillary Clinton at a panel discussion at the Clinton Global Initiative, Sept. 24, 2014 in New York.

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. He’s with her. On Sunday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earned the endorsement of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein—an endorsement she had been working toward for years. As was revealed by Wikileaks, Hillary Clinton spent the run up to her presidential campaign giving speeches to Goldman

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New York Times Admits Bias, But For Whom?

Many find the establishment media’s rather open conspiracy against Donald Trump’s candidacy to not only be acceptable, but laudatory. And, why not?

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By Dan Wright
New York Times building. Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid on Flickr.

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. In August, Jim Rutenberg of The New York Times admitted the establishment or “mainstream” media could not be objective when covering Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Rutenberg claimed this was Trump’s fault for having an abnormal campaign style and questioning establishment consensus views

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