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What Health Care Means for Families Like Mine

With help from Medicaid, my newborn got life-saving care — and I got a GED.

We’ve “grown the pie” massively since the 1980s, but it hasn’t resulted in ordinary Americans getting a bigger slice.

Wealthy families have rigged college admissions for generations, but they want you to blame affirmative action.

It’s inspired terrorist attacks — and entire governing structures — on multiple continents. Can we name it?

Illnesses and injury shouldn’t bankrupt workers or their employers. Let’s pool resources to protect all of us.

Too often we get sticker shock at the cost of public policies, even when they’d actually save us money.

Recent mass murderers have an undeniable common hero.

Paper receipts generate enormous amounts of waste each year — and hardly anyone needs them.

“Student-athletes” make billions for others while putting their own futures at risk.

They’re building robots to siphon farm profits out of local communities and into the pockets of rich investors.