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The Word Games That Enable Medicaid Cuts

Thom Walsh The American Prospect
We don’t call it Medicaid in many states, and we use euphemisms for what are in reality cuts. That endangers the system, a health care regulator writes.

Materialists Tries To Update the Rom-Com for the Tinder Generation

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Writer-director Celine Song’s Materialists follows a professional NYC matchmaker split between two charming suitors. It’s yet another attempt to update the Jane Austen formula, but without the poignancy and beauty of Song’s acclaimed Past Lives.

This Week in People’s History, Jun 25-Jul 1, 2025

Portside
An integrated group of students, together immediately after their school was desegregated
School Integration in a Small Town (1955), Love Is All You Need (2015), ‘That Flag Just Had to Come Down’ (2015), Liberation Day, (1970), It’s a Police Action, Not a War (1950), Goodnight Irene (1950), Shut Up and Get Out! (1965)