Freedom for the Many
Medicare for All isn’t just about expanding health coverage. It’s about expanding freedom.
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Against Creativity
The push for “creativity” at work and in society is about serving capital’s needs.
Coronavirus Has Worsened the Mental Health Crisis. Medicare for All Can Help.
Before the pandemic, we were already in the middle of a mental health crisis. Now it’s even worse. We need a Medicare for All system not just to treat our medical needs, but our mental ones, too.
Joe Biden Wants to Take Away Your Music
Joe Biden hasn’t changed much over the years. So it’s safe to assume that the version of him that you see in a recently surfaced video threatening to jail rave promoters and destroy our right to culture is the version of him we would get in a Biden White House.
Globalization Isn’t the Problem — Capitalism Is
The Right has hijacked the vision of a life beyond neoliberal globalization. It’s time for a new progressive internationalism, one that puts solidarity and justice over corporate profits.
A Radical Approach to the NHS
Decades of stealth attacks haven’t just weakened Britain’s National Health Service — they’ve made it harder to criticize its shortcomings.
Chicago Teachers Want a Nurse in Every School
Schools need nurses. A key demand by the Chicago Teachers Union in their strike that kicks off tomorrow, rejected so far by Mayor Lori Lightfoot: putting more nurses in the city’s schools.
Trump’s New SNAP Rules Will Cause a National Public Health Crisis
The Trump administration is about to remove 3.5 million people from food stamps entirely. The consequence will be a massive health crisis for working-class people.
When Senator Elizabeth Warren Went to Bat for a Corporate Health-Care Interest
As a senator, Elizabeth Warren worked hard, over the course of years, to repeal a medical device tax. It’s a record that should worry Medicare-for-All advocates.
The Meaning of Chile’s Explosion
The ongoing popular upheaval in Chile is the product of thirty years of neoliberal oligarchy and half-hearted democratization. To uproot the existing power structure, the country needs a new constitution.
Itemizing Atrocity
For blacks, the “war on terror” hasn’t come home. It’s always been here.
The Left Under Macron
Newly-elected Communist MP Elsa Faucillon on France's divided Left and the way forward in the fight against Macron.
The Fight for Labor Justice in College Sports Is About More Than Wages
A new California law will allow college athletes the right to profit off of their name and likeness. It’s a welcome step toward compensating such athletes for their labor. But the rot at the heart of the NCAA goes much deeper than wages.
As Centrist Dems Go After the Left, Beware the P-Words
Democrats are trying to defeat socialism by deploying concepts that, while sounding reasonable, ultimately play to the Right. Words like “practical” and “pragmatic” may sound objective, but they’re used to undermine a left that’s winning elections.
Sweden Without Illusions
In the upcoming Swedish elections, despite continued popularity for the country’s welfare state, Left prospects are bleak.
Yale’s Bad History
What happens when a history professor at Yale opposes a grad union but doesn’t know her history?
Katha Pollitt’s Quality Control
The nature of a product is irrelevant to how we should theorize, legislate, or organize the labor involved in producing it.
Why Bernie Sanders Is the Best Candidate to Fight Health Disparities for Black Americans
As a black, female family physician, I see the realities of America’s massive racial health disparities every day. Bernie Sanders is the presidential candidate who best understands those disparities and is ready to fight them.
The Tory Crisis That Dare Not Speak Its Name
The British media have turned the Labour Party’s alleged antisemitism problem into a national crusade. Meanwhile, leading Tories this week openly associated themselves with the Ku Klux Klan and the ideas of Anders Breivik — and the media shrugged.
Why Are Pundits Fawning Over Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare-for-All Financing Proposal?
Somehow, the least progressive Medicare-for-All funding proposal I have ever seen is being championed by many in the media as our best and only choice.