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Healthcare
The word of the year for 2022 could have been “inflation.” Air travel prices rose nearly 40% from a year earlier. Grocery, housing, energy and other prices are also up....
Michael Lighty
James G. Kahn
Intellectual Property must serve the global good, rather than humanity serving the interests of a few private companies. And in the case of COVID-19, the global good is not in...
Jeffrey Sachs
As if Donald Trump's irresponsibility was not already a national tragedy, the White House seems now to favor a controversial approach to Covid-19 that threatens to bring nothing less than...
I have been deeply distressed by the growing political backlash to the restrictions that many states and local governments have put in place to stop the spread of the coronavirus....
Dr. James Zogby
Ben Jealous, former NAACP president and Maryland gubernatorial candidate, has launched a new relief fund aimed at supporting Baltimore-area workers that are struggling or have lost their jobs amid the...
Morgan Eichensehr
On this somber Memorial Day weekend, America is approaching the grim milestone of 100,000 Covid-19 deaths in a population of 330 million. Six Asia-Pacific nations -- Australia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan...
As America reopens for business, you might expect Jeff Bezos, the richest man in America, and his Amazon corporation, the most profitable corporation in America, to set the standard for how to protect...
Robert Reich
Economy & Economic Justice / Healthcare
No other nation has endured as much death from Covid-19 nor nearly as high a death rate as has the United States. With 4.25% of the world population, America has...
The number of Americans who have died from Covid-19 now significantly exceeds the total US troop fatalities during the Vietnam War. While the coronavirus continues to ravage the country, with confirmed...
The public health response will be decisive in stopping the COVID-19 coronavirus before it devastates entire populations in the West and around the world. And the right approach requires that...
Christie Offenbacher, of Jacobin's Stay at Home, interviews Lighty on the status of the fight for Medicare for All and a strategy for pushing the policy forward.
Christie Offenbacher
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