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.
19271 Articles by: Jonathan Sas
Jonathan Sas has worked in senior policy and political roles in government, think tanks, and the labor movement. He is an honorary witness to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. His writing has appeared in the Toronto Star, National Post, the Tyee, and Maisonneuve.
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.
The Gross Coalition
As Italians get ready to go to the polls this weekend, the center-left is preparing to do a deal with Silvio Berlusconi.
Labor and the Long Seventies
In the tumultuous 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the country — and employers launched a fierce counter-attack.
You Were Born in the Wrong Country
The US does a terrible job of keeping its children out of poverty — especially compared to other industrialized nations.
What’s Happening in Catalonia?
With leading separatist figures in prison or exile, and December’s elections producing a stalemate, what next for Catalonia’s independence movement?
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
Class struggle and running for office often pull in opposite directions. But we can’t build a socialist politics without navigating those waters.
What Strategy for the US Left?
The capitalist state’s dependence on profitability and its institutional structure make the strategy of successive, partial breaks through “non-reformist reforms” unrealistic.