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The simple solution to the Medicare Advantage problem is to kill off the program. It was just a Trojan horse to privatize Medicare, and its presence will make Medicare for All even harder to implement.

At the dawn of the new millennium, we directed our national resources in the exact wrong direction. But it’s not too late to turn things around.

They weren’t kidding when they called Afghanistan the “graveyard of empires.” That cemetery has just taken another imperial body. And it wasn’t pretty, was it? Not that anyone should be surprised. Even after 20 years of preparation, a burial never is

A reckoning with America’s failed national security policy is long overdue. America’s current vision of security has been ruinous both to the world and to the American people. A different future is possible.

Socialist parties, social movements, anti-militarism, and other hot takes

The lack of progress has frustrated civil rights leaders and activists who charge that the president isn’t taking the fight for voting rights seriously enough.

The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.

Progressive critics warn failure to bolster the unemployment system during the pandemic "is a shocking dereliction of responsibility."