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If you have Medicare, you know you just have to give your provider your Medicare card and they will bill Medicare for your treatment. Improved Medicare for All would do away with the need for supplemental coverage and expand the services covered.

Overwhelming odds, unexpected alliances and tough losses — defeating Keystone XL built a bolder, savvier climate movement. From frontline battles to large national mobilizations, tar sands resistance developed new tactics and organizing strategies.

Researchers worry the pandemic may have severe after-effects, with deaths of despair impacting more distressed and newly-vulnerable populations. Only a serious reform of American capitalism can address the kind of distress and insecurity that kills.

The congresswoman knows impunity for those who incited the Capitol attack just allows them to do the same, or worse, again. Impunity for the people who told the lie would amount to complicity in their conduct...

New year, new realities in Russia, China, Cuba and Vietnam

As this book shows, writes reviewer Rosen, “the slave trade persisted in New York in the decades before the Civil War because the city was the capital of the Southern slave economy.”

Six workers were killed in a chicken plant in Gainesville, Ga. The community is demanding answers.

Movement to unionize workers in Alabama faces tough opposition as the retail giant launches aggressive anti-union drive.

Government needs to restore the competence of public systems and not wait for crises.

We analyzed 193 people arrested in connection with the January 6 riot—and found a new kind of American radicalism.