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Voters Went Left on Health Care in Tuesday’s Midterms

WEBTuesday’s midterm elections weren’t nearly as awful as many people, including myself, feared they would be.Alongside other encouraging results for the Left, health care, …

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The Medicaid Patchwork

WEBInterview by Meagan Day. Medicaid is the nation’s primary source of health insurance for low-income people. The program has saved millions of lives, but it fails to fully realize its …

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To Defend Public Health, We Need More Than Lockdowns

WEBOver the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, state-imposed lockdowns have become a widely accepted public health measure around the world. For many on the Left, these …

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Democrats Should Fight Trump With Medicare For All

WEBA small group of activists rally against the GOP health care plan outside of the Metropolitan Republican Club, July 5, 2017 in New York City. Drew Angerer / Getty Democratic …

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Understanding Capitalism

WEBwe add concerns such as health care (10 per cent), education (7 per - cent), and poverty/joblessness (4 percent) — matters of economic welfare were the biggest …

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How a working-class coalition can be built, and maintained

WEB3 Commonsense Solidarity INTRODUCTION In 2021, Jacobin, a New York-based socialist magazine with a print circulation of 75,000 and an online audience of three million a …

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Capitalism and Class Struggle

WEBtypically lower waged; they also tend to come without health and pension benefits, which is one of the reasons employers are switching over to them. Lower wages and no benefits …

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Corporate Democrats Are Attacking Nina Turner Over Medicare …

WEBA 2018 poll showed that Medicare for All is wildly popular in Northeast Ohio — and Turner is running in a district that has been represented for nearly thirty years by lawmakers who …

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1 Where Are All the Left Populists

WEB5 Where Are All the Left Populists? working-class experience are more likely to face financial and organizational barriers to running, especially early on. We also find, in line …

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Joe Biden’s COVID Relief Bill is Rightfully Bringing Back …

WEBThe newly passed COVID-19 relief bill will not solve every aspect of the crisis, and it won’t fundamentally reverse our massive wealth inequality. But the bill will make a substantial …

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Elder Care Should Not Be About Making Profits

WEBThe long-term care (LTC) home crisis in Ontario is a case study in the perils of treating health care as a vehicle for profit. A recent report from the Canadian Medical …

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The Dangers of Letting Racecraft Displace Class During the …

WEBAs National Institutes of Health, Dr Francis Collins told the Washington Post recently, “If this is a vaccine trial that enrolls a bunch of 20-somethings or white college graduates, it will …

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Bernie Sanders Must Take the Gloves off Against Joe Biden Tonight

WEBIt’s now or never: in his debate with Joe Biden tonight, Bernie Sanders must make clear that Biden’s track record and policy proposals are nowhere near sufficient to meet the …

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David Sirota: A Bipartisan Effort to Prevent Accountability for the

WEBA chorus from politicians and mainstream media is rising to demand we “look forward, not backward” on the criminally negligent US response to coronavirus. The aim of these …

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The Lockdown Is an Opportunity to Redefine What Our Economy …

WEBThe COVID-19 crisis has shown that markets alone can’t meet our societies’ fundamental needs. But state measures to ward off economic collapse are just the start of a battle …

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The Pain of Pandemic-Induced Unemployment in America Is Brutal …

WEBThe lack of long-term economic aid for unemployed workers has meant that incredible amounts of suffering are everywhere in America right now. We talked to unemployed …

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Emmanuel Macron’s Weak Pandemic Response Is a Bad Omen for …

WEBHealth; Environment; Emmanuel Macron’s Weak Pandemic Response Is a Bad Omen for His Promises on Climate Action. By Nessim Achouche Like the COVID-19 pandemic, …

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How Big Finance Is Making a Killing From the Pandemic

WEBThe Federal Reserve has played a pivotal role in the revival of financial markets. The Fed’s swift and extraordinary intervention in response to the pandemic is even more …

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Further Means Testing of the Stimulus Will Be Disastrous for …

WEB“I’m basically just treading water,” said Jay, forty-two. Jay had been working full time in the live event industry in Texas since 2016. While he was largely living paycheck to …

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Jean-Luc Godard Showed Me New Possibilities of What Life Could …

WEBI grew up in a suffocatingly conservative environment. Jean-Luc Godard’s films helped show me that my own conception of who I am and what kind of life I could lead could look …

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Inside the Khmer Rouge’s Killing Fields

WEBReview of From Rice Fields to Killing Fields: Nature, Life and Labor under the Khmer Rouge, by James Tyner (Syracuse University Press, 2017).. The Communist Party of …

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