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The Republican budget will gut Medicaid, slash food aid for families, and shutter rural hospitals—just to give tax breaks that will go overwhelmingly to the wealthy. It is a staggering upward redistribution of income.

For the first time, required pre-authorizations are coming to traditional Medicare. The Trump administration proposes to extend pre-authorizations to traditional Medicare, just like Medicare Advantage. This maneuver has gotten little attention.

In honor of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and all those who refuse to be silenced on Israeli apartheid and genocide by bogus claims that denouncing those abuses amounts to hatred of Jews. Written in 2007, re-posted by the author this past week.

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Zohran Mamdani shares the NYC Labor Movement’s vision for a city where working people have power, dignity, and opportunity, and has consistently communicated that vision in a way that resonates with working New Yorkers.

Israeli troops were ordered to kill starving, unarmed civilians who were trying to get food for their families.

Move comes after rightwing Republican accuses New York City mayoral candidate of concealing support for ‘terrorism’

The most dangerous thing about Alligator Alcatraz isn’t the alligators. It’s the message...

By passing Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan.

"This book is needed," writes reviewer LeBlanc. "Instead of sharing hard-and-fast edicts, the kind desired by those with a fundamentalist frame of mind, Park advocates for courage and conversation."