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The bills to create and fund universal healthcare face opposition from powerful lobbies for doctors and insurance companies

"When conservative Democrats have repeatedly ripped apart the president's agenda while progressives fight to save it, it's frankly bizarre to watch the media conversation focus on the risks of 'going too far left.'"

The scariest thing about Don’t Look Up is that absurd as it is, it barely exaggerates. Much of our political elite are just as greedy and foolish, our media just as vapid, and our response to impending disaster exactly as mind-bogglingly irrational.

Introducing the AI Bill of Rights, and more hot flashes from media land

Three lessons from the 301-day nurses' strike at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester

Swedish social democracy produced one of the most humane societies in history. That wouldn’t have happened without a militant labor movement and a working-class political party.

It is a disgraceful legacy that we cannot afford to pass on to future generations.

The most promising course of action for human survival might well lie in a mobilization to compel the nuclear nations to accept the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to accept a restrained role in a cooperatively-governed world.

Since the initial victory in Buffalo, workers at several other Starbucks stores throughout the country have filed for union elections, including in Boston, Chicago, Seattle and Knoxville, Tenn.

COVID-19 is far from over, not because it cannot be stopped but because it cannot be stopped in a profit-driven society. The same can be said for climate change, environmental destruction, pollution, poverty, and war.