Saving West Virginia
West Virginia’s teacher strike started over pay and benefits. But it could end up transforming the state’s politics.
19597 Articles by: Alex Press
Escaping the Dead Ends
A new party formed ahead of this weekend’s Italian election is looking to overcome a decade of failure by the country’s left.
Bernie Sanders Has a Message
And the message is good.
Obamacare and the End of Culture
Enjoy the soothing sounds of our national id.
Is It Okay to Watch Football?
That’s an individual choice. But imposing boycotts from the outside isn’t how politics works.
How to Kill a Bill
Inside the secret war of America’s most effective assassins: Harry and Louise.
Rich People Kill Themselves
Today, the rich have access to the finest medical treatments backed up by the most rigorous science. Some of them decide to take mushroom elixirs instead.
A Counterrevolution in Progress
Piece by piece, conservatives have dismantled US abortion rights.
Talkin’ For-Profit Medicine Blues
A century of hard living and hospital bills in American song.
George Bailey’s Shrinkage
It’s a Wonderful Life of lowered expectations.
Model Consumers
Obamacare tried to fix the health system one consumer choice at a time. No wonder it failed.
Do We Need Pfizer?
A plan to take on Big Pharma — and create and distribute lifesaving drugs.
How Single Payer Could Fail
We can’t stop halfway on the road to single payer.
The Private Option
A growing industry has a simple message to the victims of the US medical system — heal thyself.
Summoning the Future
The story of the British National Health Service, one of the twentieth century’s great working-class achievements.
Our Annual Physical
Everything’s fine but our wallet.
The Unions and the Movement
Through organizing around Medicare for All, unions can not only save millions of Americans, they can save themselves.
What’s Left in Puerto Rico?
Progressive forces in Puerto Rico must link social justice to national determination if they want to lead the island out of precarity.
The Socialist Case for Gun Control
We have a moral obligation to challenge a gun lobby callously destroying the lives of ordinary people.