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Mexico Is Going All In for Universal Health Care

Kurt Hackbarth Jacobin
Mexico’s new national health system aims to provide universal care. At a moment when US taxpayer dollars are being harnessed to destroy health care infrastructure abroad, Mexico is attempting to make a constitutional right to care into a reality

Article Why American Life Expectancy Is Falling

Lynn Parramore Institute for New Economic Thinking
In a discussion with INET’s Lynn Parramore, researcher Steven H. Woolf explains how the peculiar features of life, policy, and economics in America are killing us sooner, and what we can do to change it.

How Flint Sit-Down Strikers Built Their Confidence

Garrett Shishido Strain Jacobin
We can’t revive labor without reviving workers’ confidence to take action on the job. In 1936 and into 1937, during a period of union weakness, Flint’s sit-down strikers in the auto industry figured out how to do just that.