Budgets

Want to Fight Inflation? Take the Bus

Want to Fight Inflation? Take the Bus Want to Fight Inflation? Take the Bus

There’s more than one way to combat a price hike.

Mar 24, 2022 / Malcolm Harris

Two violinists play music in the street as young families listen

Covid and Canceled Gigs Have Left Musicians High and Dry Covid and Canceled Gigs Have Left Musicians High and Dry

Yet most working musicians have been marginalized or excluded from current Covid relief funding.

Mar 10, 2022 / Marc Ribot

The Biden Administration Turns Its Back on the Pandemic

The Biden Administration Turns Its Back on the Pandemic The Biden Administration Turns Its Back on the Pandemic

Structural violence, social murder, and our national policy of organized abandonment.

Mar 10, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves

Minnesota teachers strike

Minneapolis Educators Strike for the Common Good Minneapolis Educators Strike for the Common Good

With public schools in limbo nationwide, the stakes couldn't be higher.

Mar 8, 2022 / Eric Blanc

Doctors hold

The Plan to Save Californians $117 Billion a Year by Switching to Single-Payer The Plan to Save Californians $117 Billion a Year by Switching to Single-Payer

Why is universal health care seen as prohibitively expensive when the status quo costs far more?

Feb 25, 2022 / Michael Lighty

Ukraine soldiers near tank

Russia, Ukraine, and the New Bipartisanship in Washington Russia, Ukraine, and the New Bipartisanship in Washington

Democrats and Republicans unite in boosting Pentagon spending.

Feb 23, 2022 / Michael T. Klare

FDR with cabinet

As Child Tax Payments Expire, Struggling Families Are Desperate As Child Tax Payments Expire, Struggling Families Are Desperate

Congress could get inspiration from the tortured creation of Social Security.

Feb 7, 2022 / James Roosevelt Jr., Henry Scott Wallace, June Hopkins, Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall, and Harold M. Ickes

Press Secretary Psaki Holds Daily Briefing

Democrats Are Facing an Uphill Battle Democrats Are Facing an Uphill Battle

With the midterm elections on the horizon, the party is alienating its base and losing public confidence.

Feb 7, 2022 / Editorial / Aída Chávez

Learning From Decades of Public Health Failure

Learning From Decades of Public Health Failure Learning From Decades of Public Health Failure

A conversation with George Aumoithe on the history of disease prevention, the economic roots of the crisis American hospitals face, and why we need to do better.

Jan 19, 2022 / Back Page / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

Gov. Gavin Newsom Covid-19 Testing

Gavin Newsom’s New Budget Proposal Expands Health Care to the Undocumented Gavin Newsom’s New Budget Proposal Expands Health Care to the Undocumented

It’s a huge step toward universal health care coverage.

Jan 14, 2022 / Sasha Abramsky

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