Latest Stories By Jon Greenberg

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Who is Elizabeth Warren? A bio of the Democratic presidential candidate

June 13, 2019

Bankruptcy law, not the most engaging topic, put Warren on the public scene when she linked it to sky high medical costs. The former law school teacher and researcher now pushes policies that she says will fix the flaws of capitalism. Our profile pulls together the key strands in her life.

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Who is Bernie Sanders? A bio of the Democratic presidential candidate

June 12, 2019

Sanders defined the insurgent wing of the Democratic party in the 2016 primaries. He did that by pushing for policies he has advanced for decades. Here's the gist of his political roots.

Donald Trump says Mexico agreed to start buying more from American farmers. Mexico says it didn’t.

June 10, 2019

Trump said a side agreement in the immigration deal meant Mexico would start buying massive amounts from American farmers. It already does. And Mexico says it agreed to nothing new.

Nancy Pelosi cites principle of not talking about Donald Trump when overseas. We looked into it

June 7, 2019

In Normandy, France, the House Speaker demurred when asked about Trump and tariffs. She deosn't talk about him when she's overseas. But she isn't shy about laying out her policy disagreements with him.

Mueller spoke. Trump reacted. We fact-checked.

May 30, 2019

As he closed the Special Counsel office, Robert Mueller's final remarks were brief, but drew a rebuke from the president.

The money and politics of prescription drugs: What you need to know

April 30, 2019

America spends about as much on prescription drugs as all the revenues of the three big car makers combined. Tracking where the money goes is hard. We have some charts to help.

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Elizabeth Warren: Does her wealth tax pay for her child care and higher education plans?

April 25, 2019

People with net worth over $50 million would face Warren's wealth tax. She counts on the revenues to pay for her child care and higher education plans. We asked education and tax economists what might throw off her predictions. They had a few ideas.

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Mueller report aims to squash WikiLeaks Seth Rich conspiracy theory

April 18, 2019

Conspiracy theoryists, Fox News' Sean Hannity among them, linked the murder of a Democratic staffer to the emails that ended up at WikiLeaks. The Special Counsel report notes how WikiLeakes chief Julian Assange fueled that rumor.

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Fact-checking the Bernie Sanders town hall on Fox News

April 17, 2019

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders brought his message of single-payer health care, higher taxes on the super-rich, and free college tuition to the conservative audience of Fox News.

Medicare for All defines one end of the Democratic presidential debate

April 11, 2019

Seeing who co-sponsored Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All bill is interesting. More interesting are the other health care bills they signed on to.

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What Democrats said about Trump, collusion before Mueller report

March 25, 2019

We don’t know what Mueller's team found and why he decided it fell short of a tacit or express agreement between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. With that in mind, we wanted to review what Democrats said before Barr’s memo came out.  

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Medicare for All: What it is, what it isn’t

February 19, 2019

Medicare for All gets a lot of play in coverage of the Democratic primary, but it's meaning can get fuzzy around the edges. Our Q&A walks you throught what it is, the potential costs, and the competing plans that play off of the idea of expanding Medicare.

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