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A surprise medical bill could be waiting for you when you wake up in the recovery room.

The response to UnitedHealthcare CEO’s murder surely disproves the claim that Americans love the private health insurance system. It’s a political force waiting to be harnessed — but few in DC seem interested.

‘UNION’ follows Amazon warehouse organizers through an uphill battle, a stunning victory, and an uncertain future

What we witnessed in the last day is an extraordinary example of what Americans must learn from South Korea. It's People, ordinary people — not governments or the military -- that will secure our democracy. It will be people and people power.

If DSA can graduate from the kindergarten playground to the real political world, it can make a major contribution to putting the interests of the inclusive and diverse working class onto the national political agenda.

With a much larger population than previously, with a larger youth population, the erosion of vast numbers of voters throughout the country is cause for alarm – for voting rights and for democracy and warrants further study and exploration.

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The president-elect is tapping mega-rich backers for positions that will give them power to cut spending on public services. The gulf between Trump’s taste for the wealthy and his populist everyman rhetoric has not gone unnoticed.

Judge Dredd, Tony Soprano, The Supes. They're all meant to be villains in cautionary tales against the danger of violent, fascistic, cultist leaders. But some Trump followers, including Elon Musk, think they're meant to be heroes to be emulated.

Trump's margin of victory, 1.6 points, was the fifth-smallest in the last 100 years. As much as the MAGA world wants to portray this as a landslide, it wasn’t. And as the last few election cycles tell us, political power in America can be fleeting.