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El-Sayed’s Win in Michigan Is the Most Consequential Election This Year

Dr. James J. Zogby Arab American Institute
In what will be seen as this year’s most significant election Dr Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and massive US military support to Israel became central themes actively debated across the state

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Reader Comments: Credible Threat?; Todd Blanche?; Contempt of Congress - No Question; New Health Care Crisis; Howard Zinn; Dr. Anthony Fauci; Prairieland; Abortion Rights; How Domestic Workers Built POWER; Announcements - New York City; Cartoons;

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.

Friday Nite Videos | March 6, 2026

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The Devil Is Busy | Documentary

An intimate look inside a women’s healthcare clinic in Atlanta, where Tracii leads security to ensure safety and care amid protests and restrictions.

Too Big To Heal

Helen Santoro, Joel Warner The Lever
The U.S. economy is growing ever more reliant on the health care crisis.

What a Better Tax Bill Would Look Like

Chuck Marr, Samantha Jacoby, Kris Cox, Stephanie Hingtgen Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
This year offers an opportunity to enact tax policy changes that would ease the strain on household budgets that people in low-paid jobs and their families face while ensuring that the nation’s wealthiest pay their fair share.

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US Pop Culture Has Long Raged Against Health Care Injustice

David K. Seitz Jacobin
The memes celebrating Luigi Mangione are far from novel: they represent a long tradition of American popular culture voicing outrage at the injustices of our health care system, from Dog Day Afternoon to Star Trek: Voyager to John Q.

Republicans Prepare To Gut Medicaid

Paul Krugman Paul Krugman Substack
Republicans West Virginia helped put in power are preparing to impose savage cuts on a program that has literally been a lifeline for many in the state, in order to help offset the cost of huge tax cuts for high-income Americans... Populism!
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