The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will be swept aside.
As poorer nations spend about 6.5 percent of export revenues servicing external debt, while world military and police spending skyrockets, it’s unlikely most countries will have the political will to shift priorities from social destruction to social care.
“The culture war was always a proxy economic war” — Catherine Liu discusses her new book, Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class.
Derek Seidman says the violence of for-profit health care’s megastructure can only be overcome through collective resistance campaigns.
There are counties in the U.S. where you’re beating the odds if you make it past 70, writes Richard Eskow. The country should stop tinkering around. It needs Medicare for All.
Prisoners in the U.S. face chronic hunger and illness due to substandard and disgusting food, as new Bureau of Prisons director Collette Peters reportedly battles bureaucracy to reform the system.
The front line against corporate tyranny is not the ballot box. It is in the desperate struggle by the overworked and underpaid to prevent corporate behemoths from turning everyone into gig workers.
Vijay Prashad recalls the DDR’s efforts to create a humane and just health care system, with few resources available, in a country devastated by World War II.
Medicare Advantage is a money-making scam, says Wendell Potter, a former health-care executive who helped develop PR and marketing schemes to sell these private insurance plans.
Royal College of Nursing’s Pat Cullen says Prime Minister Sunak “should ask himself what is motivating nursing staff to stand outside their hospitals for a second day so close to Christmas.”