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The Farm Bill Is a Health Bill

Kenya Crumel and Lorette Picciano Common Dreams
That land is a body and must be nourished. That we cannot cut it into fundable pieces and expect the pieces to bleed separately. The Farm Bill is a health bill. It cannot be cut into pieces without harming land and people.

Fight Hunger and Make Food More Affordable.

Ralph Palladino Submitted by the author to Portside
Given today’s challenging economic landscape and recent federal policy rollbacks, publicly run food stores are a practical, common-sense idea worth pursuing.

Medicaid Cuts Could Kill Safety-Net Health Centers

Maria Esch Jacobin
Federally qualified health centers are an essential source of medical care for poor and working-class Americans, especially in rural areas and neighborhoods of color. Medicaid cuts in Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill could shut them down.

Excerpt: How To Close a Camp

John Washington Texas Observer
Detention was sold as both a law-and-order necessity and an economic opportunity, welding together the rac­ist politics of the drug war with the rise of private prisons.

The Mentor

Kai Bird, Susan Goldmark The New Yorker
How Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump everything.