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Watch dying activist Andy Barkan’s “heartfelt” and “moving” conversation with Bernie...
Progressive activist Ady Barkan didn't let losing his voice to ALS stop him from launching a new series of interviews with presidential...
Bernie Sanders wants to cancel $81 billion in medical debt
"In the United States of America, your financial life and future should not be destroyed because you or a member of your family gets sick."
Why mental health education should be mandatory
Emily Weinberg was 15 when she was hospitalized for depression and anxiety and 16 when she founded Sophrosyne Mental Health—a resource for...
Routing the two-tier system: Part IV – Healthcare
The healthcare system in the U.S. is clearly a two-tier (or multi-tier) system. Some parts of it (the Veterans Administration, for example)...
It’s time to put #PeopleOverPharma
From Connecticut to Washington, New York and West Virginia, People’s Action members rallied across the nation this Tuesday to demand that Congress and...
Stuck in a rut of their own making, progressive democrats need...
Until progressive Democratic candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren forthrightly declare that Yes! socializing health care by making the government the...
The cleaning lady
She works hard for her money, as the song relates. She's the cleaning lady, the one who gets on her knees and...
Which 2020 Democrats are taking money from the healthcare industry?
Hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and insurers are working together to stop Sanders’ proposed healthcare plan from gaining even more traction within the Democratic party.
The bs about Medicare-for-all has to stop!
It is increasingly clear that the wagons have circled both in the Democratic National Committee and in the news media to shut...
Sanders joins union leaders and healthcare workers in protesting ‘corporate greed’-fueled...
"People will get hurt, and they will die as a direct result of this one man's action."
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David Huitema confirmed as ethics Czar amid fears of Trump’s return and conflict of...
As Trump’s second term looms, the Senate confirmed David Huitema to lead the Office of Government Ethics. Advocates praise the move, but critics warn of a tough road ahead for government accountability.
The worse the chaos that results, the sooner the eventual revulsion and turnaround
A too gullible population let itself be bamboozled.
Tlaib, ACLU, and advocates warn H.R. 9495 could empower Trump to silence nonprofits and...
Progressives and civil rights groups sound the alarm over legislation that could allow President-elect Trump to strip nonprofits of their tax-exempt status without evidence, threatening free speech and democracy.
JD Vance hints at Elon Musk’s role in targeting Social Security under Trump’s ‘efficiency’...
Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance reveals Elon Musk could lead a commission to cut federal spending, with Social Security and the Department of Defense as potential targets. The billionaire’s past decision-making raises concerns about the future of essential programs.
Billionaire emissions outpace lifetime footprints of average individuals, new report shows
The report examines how the super-rich’s use of luxury transportation and investments in polluting industries exacerbate the climate crisis.