Insurer Sets Time Limits on Anesthesia During Surgeries

A surprise medical bill could be waiting for you when you wake up in the recovery room.

Americans Hate Their Private Health Insurance

The response to UnitedHealthcare CEO’s murder surely disproves the claim that Americans love the private health insurance system. It’s a political force waiting to be harnessed — but few in DC seem interested.

Mass Protests Force South Korea To Revoke Martial Law

What we witnessed in the last day is an extraordinary example of what Americans must learn from South Korea. It's People, ordinary people — not governments or the military -- that will secure our democracy. It will be people and people power.

Trump's Election: Lessons for the Left

If DSA can graduate from the kindergarten playground to the real political world, it can make a major contribution to putting the interests of the inclusive and diverse working class onto the national political agenda.

Campaigning in Monroe County, PA -- a Case Study

With a much larger population than previously, with a larger youth population, the erosion of vast numbers of voters throughout the country is cause for alarm – for voting rights and for democracy and warrants further study and exploration.

Friday Nite Videos | December 6, 2024

Five Things Christian Nationalists Want from Trump. What Your Brain Is Really Doing When You're Doing 'Nothing.' The $1 Trillion Private Health Insurance Scam. Michael Kosta Meets the No. 1 Book Banner in Florida. Trump Goes to War With Allies.

The Most Billionaires Ever

The president-elect is tapping mega-rich backers for positions that will give them power to cut spending on public services. The gulf between Trump’s taste for the wealthy and his populist everyman rhetoric has not gone unnoticed.

Trump Fans Are Suffering From Tony Soprano Syndrome

Judge Dredd, Tony Soprano, The Supes. They're all meant to be villains in cautionary tales against the danger of violent, fascistic, cultist leaders. But some Trump followers, including Elon Musk, think they're meant to be heroes to be emulated.

Data Suggest R’s Win Streak May Be Short

Trump's margin of victory, 1.6 points, was the fifth-smallest in the last 100 years. As much as the MAGA world wants to portray this as a landslide, it wasn’t. And as the last few election cycles tell us, political power in America can be fleeting.

Google A.I. Agent Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts

GenCast, from the company’s DeepMind division, outperformed the world’s best predictions of deadly storms as well as everyday weather.
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Culture

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Postscript

Marie Howe Marie Howe: New and Selected Poems
Poet Marie Howe shows us the frightening consequences of "what we did to the earth."

books

Man Overboard

Rebecca Onion Slate
"Josh Hawley’s long-threatened tome about American masculinity is here," writes this reviewer. "Savor it with me."

food

The Great American Turkey

Livia Gershon JSTOR
The turkey was semi-domesticated and kept in pens in the American Southwest some 2,000 years ago—but not for the reason you think.

poetry

On Progress

Ruben Quesada Omnium Gatherum Quarterly, Brutal Companion
In the shadow of 9/11, poet Ruben Quesada shows us the destructiveness and death that come with "progress."

books

John Lewis: A Life

Steve Nathans-Kelly New York Journal of Books
"More than any Lewis biography to date," writes reviewer Nathans-Kelly, this book "captures that life’s complex, magnificent, and underappreciated second act.”

Labor

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Sabotage as a Tool of Solidarity

Shaun Richman In These Times
Photo of men in suits and coats standing in front of the union building. Workplace sabotage has historically been a powerful organizing tactic. Is the time ripe again?

labor

Labor Nominee Chavez-DeRemer: More Trump Loyalist Than Union Ally

Hassan Ali Kanu American Prospect
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for labor secretary, Oregon Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, has been portrayed as the rare pro-union Republican, but a quick review of her history as an elected representative reveals a more mixed record.

Friday nite video

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Trump Goes to War With Allies and Partners

Canada. Mexico. Great Britain. Before assuming office, Trump is launching attacks on the closest partners of the United States, and is meeting with embarrassing rebuffs.

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Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee) | Lance Canales

The story of the 1948 plane crash that took the lives of 32 passengers told by Woody Guthrie's poem Deportee, performed with guttural vocals, hard-edged, stripped down, foot-stomping acoustic instrumentation