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Coronavirus Proves It: We Need Medicare for All
Health care rationing isn’t what awaits us in a single-payer system. It’s happening now in our failed for-profit system.
read moreStay in Your Home — And Stay Angry
The economy’s turned upside down, people are dying, and we’re all cooped up because the people who are supposed to keep us safe didn’t.
Wash Your Hands — If You Have Water
Americans are going to need a lot of help in the coming months. Ending water shutoffs — permanently — is the least cities can do.
What 9/11 Can Teach Us About Responding to Coronavirus
The community came together to help 9/11 survivors and their families get relief. Here are the lessons we learned for the hard times ahead.
Communist Virus
We’re all socialists in a pandemic.
Editor’s Picks
Money In Politics Is a Civil Rights Issue
Less than 1 percent of the population provides most of America’s campaign funds. It looks nothing like the rest of us.
To Fight Coronavirus, Fight Poverty
Americans aren’t stocking up on toilet paper because we fear a virus. It’s because we fear our system won’t protect us.
A Simple Prescription for a Longer Life: Equality
Epidemiologists say it’s no coincidence Americans now live shorter lives than their counterparts in more equal economies.
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Stay in Your Home — And Stay Angry
The economy’s turned upside down, people are dying, and we’re all cooped up because the people who are supposed to keep us safe didn’t.
read more
Communist Virus
We’re all socialists in a pandemic.
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This Pandemic Can Bring Us Together
The actual disease of our country is not a pathogen, but the widening separation of rich elites from the rest of us.
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Wash Your Hands — If You Have Water
Americans are going to need a lot of help in the coming months. Ending water shutoffs — permanently — is the least cities can do.
read more
What 9/11 Can Teach Us About Responding to Coronavirus
The community came together to help 9/11 survivors and their families get relief. Here are the lessons we learned for the hard times ahead.
read more
Coronavirus Proves It: We Need Medicare for All
Health care rationing isn’t what awaits us in a single-payer system. It’s happening now in our failed for-profit system.
read more
Thinking Positive…
…And testing positive.
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The Opposite of Progressivism? Pessimism
Polls show broad support for progressive ideas. So why aren’t more progressives voting for them?
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We’re All in This Together
Why we can’t be okay with other people bearing the brunt of a pandemic or recession.
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Money In Politics Is a Civil Rights Issue
Less than 1 percent of the population provides most of America’s campaign funds. It looks nothing like the rest of us.
read more