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When Medicare Helped Kill Jim Crow

When Medicare Helped Kill Jim Crow When Medicare Helped Kill Jim Crow

By making health care broadly available, the government helps ensure our freedom.

Jan 19, 2021 / Mike Konczal

How Hospital Monopolies Broke the Health Care System

How Hospital Monopolies Broke the Health Care System How Hospital Monopolies Broke the Health Care System

Corporate consolidation has left the US with a health care system built for profit, not people.

Dec 2, 2020 / Feature / Susie Cagle

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Focused Protection, Herd Immunity, and Other Deadly Delusions Focused Protection, Herd Immunity, and Other Deadly Delusions

Abandoning solidarity for the siren song of age-targeted reopening is a political error and a medical mistake.

Oct 8, 2020 / Gregg Gonsalves

Can Joe Biden Unrig the Economy?

Can Joe Biden Unrig the Economy? Can Joe Biden Unrig the Economy?

Raising taxes on the rich would help stop the economy from simply channeling income to 1 percent.

Aug 21, 2020 / Mike Konczal

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Diary of a Never-Ending Crisis Diary of a Never-Ending Crisis

“Keep walking, keep going, you can’t control it.”

Jul 29, 2020 / Najla Said

Poor People’s Campaign

A New America Is Possible—Now A New America Is Possible—Now

It’s high time to finally end poverty and systemic racism, mitigate climate change, and halt this country’s ever-growing militarism.

Jul 22, 2020 / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

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How to Destroy a National Health Service How to Destroy a National Health Service

Over several decades, a toxic combination of underfunding and stealth privatization efforts have brought Britain’s widely beloved NHS to its knees.

Jun 22, 2020 / Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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We Need an Academic New Deal We Need an Academic New Deal

Higher education work is a public good, and we university workers are prepared to fight to make it better for all.

Jun 9, 2020 / Alyssa Bowen and William Horne

George Floyd Protest

Don’t Stop Organizing Don’t Stop Organizing

We’re at a breaking point in American history, and there is only one way to revive our society: from the bottom up.

Jun 5, 2020 / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

Covid-19 Isn’t the Only American Health Epidemic

Covid-19 Isn’t the Only American Health Epidemic Covid-19 Isn’t the Only American Health Epidemic

When Andra Day’s “Rise Up” plays on the hospital loudspeakers, my spirits lift for a moment. But then I remember.

May 21, 2020 / Augie Lindmark

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