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No president has tried so of course it has never worked

Mexico’s new national health system aims to provide universal care. At a moment when US taxpayer dollars are being harnessed to destroy health care infrastructure abroad, Mexico is attempting to make a constitutional right to care into a reality

Everybody within the organization owed their job to Cesar. He appointed everybody, he could discharge anybody at his will, which he often did. That wasn’t just theoretical power; periodic purges pulsed through the organization.

The revival of the hit 2000s sitcom has none of the political subversiveness of the original. But should we be surprised? Social and economic pressures, arguably more intense now than in the 2000s, are noticeably absent in the show.

It is critical to understand these cuts in the broader context of the already highly dysfunctional U.S. health care system.

In a discussion with INET’s Lynn Parramore, researcher Steven H. Woolf explains how the peculiar features of life, policy, and economics in America are killing us sooner, and what we can do to change it.

We can’t revive labor without reviving workers’ confidence to take action on the job. In 1936 and into 1937, during a period of union weakness, Flint’s sit-down strikers in the auto industry figured out how to do just that.

Unless war in Sudan is reframed as an attack on civilians aimed at rolling back gains made during the 2019 revolution, rather than a war between generals, the conference ‘will remain an exercise in optics and will not be a genuine pathway to peace.’

Life is not a fairy tale. Having good politics does not mean that life will be easy. It just means that you will be able to look back on your life and know that you tried to make the whole world better and not worse.

In the throes of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign, immigration enforcement was becoming embedded within colleges, with little to no community oversight, legal transparency, or guardrails to protect students, faculty, or staff.