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There is another place we can look for more money, from a most unlikely source. Single Payer Health Insurance.

Whether you're outraged by skyrocketing healthcare costs, job cuts, attacks on privacy, or the gutting of essential services—this moment is for you.

What we need to think about are things like maybe a national strike across this country.

Poet Florence Weinberger contemplates what her husband, an Auschwitz survivor, left behind.

UAW called for unions to synchronize contract expirations on May 1, 2028. How can we harness this compression point to coordinate our movements?

The most important people may not be on the stage but in the audience. Without social media, a big national march connected activists and culminated the protest. “Nowadays ... protest becomes the beginning of a movement rather than the end.”

The main thing to know: MMR vaccines are highly effective and provide long-lasting protection. Outbreaks occur mainly among unvaccinated individuals. But here's more about boosters, young children, infection-induced immunity and transmission.

When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz.

The closest thing we have to a Trump economic spokesman is Elon Musk, who sees dead people collecting Social Security. And here’s the thing: while there’s still a dwindling Musk/Tesla cult, to a first approximation everyone else hates Elon.