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Mexico Is Going All In for Universal Health Care

Kurt Hackbarth Convergence
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.

“Bloody Unacceptable Is What It Is”

Emilie Anomalie The Left Berlin
Unless war in Sudan is reframed as an attack on civilians aimed at rolling back gains made during the 2019 revolution, rather than a war between generals, the conference ‘will remain an exercise in optics and will not be a genuine pathway to peace.’

Two Visions: Politics of Love, or Politics of Fear?

Hamilton Nolan How Things Work
Life is not a fairy tale. Having good politics does not mean that life will be easy. It just means that you will be able to look back on your life and know that you tried to make the whole world better and not worse.

Friday Nite Videos | April 17, 2026

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Melania's Epstein Statement Raises BIG Questions. Your CEO Is a Robot | Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine. The Great Class War. Ukraine's Role in European Security. The Secret Schemes Hidden in the Epstein Emails.

Gunboat Diplomacy Could Spur Anti-Imperialism. It Has Before.

Tony Wood The Conversation
Latin America’s anti-imperialist traditions point to one possible outcome of the U.S.’s newly aggressive stance: a resurgence of anti-imperialist sentiment as the organizing principle for a new generation of activists.
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