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Democrats Against Single Payer

Branko Marcetic Jacobin
Single-payer health care has always been a goal of the Left. But Democrats have turned it into a punching bag.

Yemen: After Two Years of War A Stupendous Human Crisis Looms

Helen Lackner Open Democracy
On March 26, 2015, the Saudi-led coalition started aerial attacks on Yemen, transforming a civil war into an international conflict and a humanitarian disaster. Even as the Trump Administration moves to increase the US role in the fighting, no end to the war is in sight. There are now some 40,000 human casualties, including more than 2,500 children and 1,900 women killed directly by the air strikes. And a child dies every ten minutes from disease or hunger.

Friday Nite Videos | March 31, 2017

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Trump/Nunes Story Gets Weirder. Bob Dylan | Nobel Prize. Nepotism, Impeachment & the Freedom Caucus. Tribute to Ahmed Kathrada. Parameter Ghosts.

Trump/Nunes Story Gets Weirder

Plus, Seth takes a closer look at Trump and the GOP's plan to allow Internet companies to sell people's Internet data.

Bob Dylan | Nobel Prize

Bob Dylan will accept the Nobel Prize in Literature at a private meeting Stockholm and will send a taped acceptance lecture.

Nepotism, Impeachment & the Freedom Caucus

First Daughter Ivanka Trump gets a White House job, recently impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye is arrested, and Donald Trump fights with his fellow Republicans.

Tribute to Ahmed Kathrada

#AhmedKathrada (Uncle Kathy) , who died this week, was a giant of the South African liberation movement. His voice lost none of its edge or clarity until the end.