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President Donald Trump is set to deliver a statement on health care at 3:15 p.m. ET. Trump's statement will follow his participation "in a greeting with victims of Obamacare," the White House said in a news release. The president commented on the Republicans' attempt to change the U.S. health care system in a Sunday Twitter post: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/889274373689028609 Last week, the GOP's effort to simply repeal Obamacare appeared to collapse after multiple Republican

On July 18, 2017, New Hampshire became the last of the New England states to decriminalize recreational marijuana. The new law, HB 640, had bipartisan sponsorship and bipartisan support. It will take effect in 60 days. However, the law seems to be confusing, and though it is a baby step toward it, the law does not legalize the possession of marijuana. Federal laws against marijuana are still significant barriers toward opening up marijuana markets. Justin Strekal, NORML Political Director, com

If only we had a handful of Centrist Independents in the U.S. Senate right now to be the catalyst for a more constructive debate over real health care reform. Health care does not have to be a hyper-partisan issue; sadly the Republicans and Democrats have turned it into one. Sure, there are areas of honest ideological disagreement when it comes to health care, such as public funding for abortion or the level of insurance subsidies for low-income people, but the fundamental objective of health c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94TTJxOQ_ts As a born and bred Jersey girl, it’s only natural that I’m stubborn about my politics. My friends and I all have ideas about candidates, issues, and New Jersey government. However, when we turned 18 and we could finally express our opinions through voting, we were met by pollsters who told us that we had to affiliate with a party in order to vote. I remember being caught off guard and enraged at the fact that I had to join a party I did not align wit

New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is in crisis. It needs $17 billion to update public housing that has fallen into disrepair. New York City is home of the US's largest public housing population, with 650,000 residents. Federal funding for NYCHA, and low-income housing across the country, has sharply declined in the past two decades. To make up funding needs, NYCHA has turned to leasing government housing to private developers. Many NYCHA residents are worried that their beloved communiti

The American medical community has seen a vast amount of change in the last few decades, specifically when it comes to women’s health care. From government policy to rapid advances in technology, the medical world is constantly bending and changing in response to the societal movements around it. Safe contraceptive care has faced numerous challenges over time. Chief among these challenges is the highly politicized debate surrounding women-specific reproductive and sexual health initiatives like

Washington, D.C. – Against the backdrop of dysfunctional government, widespread economic uncertainty, and a general failure of the two-party system to solve many of the nation’s most pressing challenges, a crop of Independent elected officeholders Wednesday came together to make the case that independent candidates for public office can get elected and bridge the political divide between Republicans and Democrats. “The two major parties don’t agree on much except to make it very difficult for a

The commander-in-chief made a controversial move earlier this month by handing the reins of authority over military operations in Afghanistan back to the Pentagon. The move gave the Pentagon more authority over war operations, a major shift from the Obama administration, which insisted on micromanaging every aspect of the military. Trump did the same with operations in Syria and Iraq as well. The president's decision is a welcomed change to some from the Obama administration, which would endle

It has been said of presidential candidates that the ideal nominee is one with no history. Put another way, the candidate with the lowest number of blemishes in the public eye. That approach assumes a candidate is a career politician, which the latest presidential candidate to emerge victorious from a roiling election season is not. To make the claim that Donald Trump appeared with no history from out of left field would be foolish, but his record in the political arena was fairly blank at the

The United States continues to fall short in fairly reflecting its diversity in elected offices. Our widespread use of a winner-take-all rule -- that is, one where the biggest group of voters can win 100% of representation -- presents a challenge to candidates who are not the preferred choice of a majority of voters. The problem of under-representation is less acute in the U.S. House than statewide races, but is still significant. With the upcoming launch of the Fair Representation Act, legisl