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May 31, 2025

Getting to Medicare for All

Dean Baker Center for Economic and Policy Research

If people understand the issues and have given a president a clear mandate for universal Medicare, they have some ability to push recalcitrant senators and Congresspeople.

May 31, 2025

Family Sues Fossil Fuel Giants for Wrongful Death in First Climate Disaster Case of Its Kind

Ruth Milka Nation of Change

A Washington woman is taking Big Oil to court over her mother’s death in a historic heatwave, opening a new front in the fight to hold polluters legally accountable for climate-fueled deaths.

May 31, 2025

Forensic Failures: 36 Police-Custody Deaths Should Have Been Ruled a Homicide, Audit Finds

Justin Fenton, Ben Conarck and Pamela Wood Baltimore Banner

The audit found that the state’s medical examiners “often failed to acknowledge restraint as a potential contributing factor” when restrained by police and "often failed to appropriately classify homicides” when the people who died were non-white.

May 31, 2025

Why the Canada Post Strike Is Not Just a ‘Labour Dispute’

Rhea Rollmann The Independent

The weaponization of ‘balance’ increasingly permeates our society. It emerges when powerful institutions call police to suspend free speech or shut down protests in the name of ‘safety’ when really, there’s no realistic danger.

May 30, 2025

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