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The Path to Medicare for All

Part of the story of reducing costs is easy. We pay $350 billion a year for the administrative costs of private health insurance. By contrast, the administrative costs of Medicare are just over 1.0 percent of what it pays out to providers.

How NOT To Run an Antisemitism Commission

Hatred of Jews because they are Jews is anathema wherever it rears its ugly head, it should be called out. But anti-Israel statements should not presumptively be equated with antisemitism, nor pro- Israeli statements imply an absence of antisemitism

Why the House Budget Bill Will Hurt Rural America

Republicans in Congress are jamming through a sweeping bill to fund handouts to the rich.

There is No Epidemic of Workless Medicaid Recipients

Trump administration officials including RFK Jr want to add work requirements to Medicaid, arguing that there is a major scourge of able-bodied recipients refusing to get jobs. Their case dramatically overstates how many people in this group are not

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – May 20, 2025

Who ya gonna call?

This Week in People’s History, May 21–27, 2025

Act Up demonstrators on the National Institutes of Health campus in May 1990
Act Up Against Bad Science (1990), Don’t Talk, Take Action! (1980), Racism Debunked, But for How Long? (1950), Speak Up, Memory! (2025), Protest and Serve (2020), National Institute of Health, R.I.P? (1930), Really Making Peru Great Again (1975)

How Democrats Beat a Supposedly Unbeatable Republican

The supposedly unbeatable Republican mayor of Nebraska’s largest city used the GOP’s anti-LGBTQ+ playbook in her reelection bid. And suffered a resounding loss!

Heritage Plan To Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

Even before President Trump was re-elected, the Heritage Foundation, best known for Project 2025, set out to destroy pro-Palestinian activism in the United States.

Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners

Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners.

Illinois' Unlawful Tax Foreclosures

The Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a decades-old practice of taking every cent of people’s home equity over unpaid property taxes. Experts say Illinois lags behind other states with a segregation-era law that mostly affects Black communities.
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Muriel Rukeyser The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser
Writing in 1968, poet and activist Muriel Rukeyser addresses the struggle to imagine and build a more humane world.

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Mr. Lonely

Zoë Hu Dissent Magazine
Some have suggested that young men are drawn to Andrew Tate because they suffer from a dearth of social contact. Yet men go to Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensify it.

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Starbucks Dress Code Causes Walkouts

Grace Snelling Fast Company
The union has been bargaining to reach a contract with Starbucks for over three years, with no end in sight. It says that the new dress code represents “bad faith bargaining,” .

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Trump's Epic 'Weave'

Concluding his Mideast corruption tour in the United Arab Emirates, Trump engages in a 15 minute ramble about Sean Duffy and Pete Buttigieg’s bicycle