John McCain and Mitt Romney share a secret. It’s 23 years of Mitt’s tax returns. Mitt gave them to McCain in 2008 when McCain, then the GOP presidential nominee, was vetting VP candidates. This time around, Mitt has won the GOP nomination, but now he’s hiding those 23 years of returns from the American people. He handed [...]

Written by Ruth Morgan Thomas for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Cross-posted in partnership from the HIV Human Rights blog and part of RH Reality Check’s coverage of the International AIDS Conference, 2012. In May, as we were getting neck-deep [...]

Written by Marge Berer for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. See all our coverage of the 2012 Global Family Planning Summit here. One in three women in the UK will have an abortion in her lifetime, most of whom will [...]

Mikey Weinstein Oh, what a strange and complex world we live in. The good guys and bad guys sometimes appear to say the same thing – that they only want the best for us all. How do we distinguish between what’s genuinely “good” and what’s genuinely “bad”? A cold, hard look at the facts is always [...]

There is good news and bad news about the popular antipsychotic Seroquel. The good news is, after years of pleas from military families, the U.S. Central Command removed the controversial drug from its approved formulary list in March. Doctors now need a waiver to write a prescription for Seroquel in combat zones, reports Military Times, [...]

Photo by Matt Weinstein Recently, as the prestigious Daily Caller reports, Americans for a Limited Government (ALG) (in a report, which mentions yours truly) exposed two dangerous facts about Obama’s Labor nominee, Erica Groshen: “In addition to having sent her kids to a camp with Communist roots, Groshen publicly favors more regulations on small businesses.” I honestly don’t [...]

Written by Bria Murray for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Dear Representative Trent Franks, Today, I watched you debate during the markup for H.R. 3803, or, as you may know it, the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, [...]

Co-authored by John Amick You know it’s a big moment for defenders of the United States’ bloated military budget when some of the all-time superstars of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex descend on Capitol Hill to fight for their perceived right to profit. The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to address the 2013 Defense [...]

As the ravages of mountaintop removal coal mining–including the re-emerging scandal of reckless black lung policies on strip miners–continue to mount despite the shift of coal production to the heartland and western Power River Basin–President Obama has an election-year opportunity to declare an armistice in the polarized Appalachian coalfields, mend a 40-year mining policy of [...]

Written by Margo Kaplan for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Cross-posted with permission from Concurring Opinions. On Wednesday evening, popular blog Gawker.com aired a post offering a cash reward for the identity of the individual who transmitted HIV to Magic [...]