Shot, Then Shut Out

Rebecca Burns In These Times
The cascade of trauma center closures around the country epitomizes the challenges to combating healthcare inequities in a for-profit system. In the absence of federal or state regulations mandating the availability of trauma care, hospitals in high poverty areas have found that simply closing their trauma units improves their bottom line.

Bipartisan Push to Scrap Medical Device Tax Is a Cautionary Tale

George Zornick The Nation
As the medical device tax saga shows, cutting loopholes is really hard to do in practice. They were likely put there to benefit specific industries, which can often be quite powerful and influence even stalwart liberal Senators who claim to want new revenue sources. Many progressives thus fear that the loopholes most likely to be closed are the ones that benefit people without lobbyists—middle-class wage earners and homeowners, students, and the very poor.

Honoring Rachel Corrie, 10 Years On

Andy Beale aljazeera
US peace activist was killed by Israeli bulldozer in Gaza as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian home.

Way Worse Than a Dumb War: Iraq Ten Years Later

Peace Movement Leaders and Activists The Nation
A crucial lesson as we stand up to the escalation of Obama’s drone war and continue to challenge those who call for war against Iran.