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How Tax-Dodging Billionaires Use Farmers as Props
Urban billionaires are trotting out the tractors and overalls in a bizarre effort to roll back their taxes.
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Dahr Jamail | Scientists Warn of “Biological Annihilation” as Warming Reaches Levels Unseen for 115,000 Years
“We're like social primates grooming each other as the environmental lion sneaks up,” says Dr. Thomas Lovejoy.
“This Is Not the Time to Sit Back”: Protesters Launch Last-Ditch Effort to Save the ACA
We must dial up the pressure on the Senate now to save the ACA and Medicaid from cuts or dismantling.
Skyrocketing Rents in California Signal a Broader US Housing Crisis
Rent control activists are also pushing for community land trusts and city-owned housing to abate the housing crisis.
Death as a Social Privilege? How Aid-in-Dying Laws May Be Revealing a New Health Care Divide
Supporters believe aid-in-dying laws are important for terminal patients because they provide an option to end life on their terms.
California Lawmakers Move to Protect Undocumented Workers
A new bill that would increase protections for workers is making its way through committees in the California legislature.
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Monsanto Promises to “Aggressively Challenge” California’s Listing of Weed Killer as Cancer Cause
As California moves forward with glyphosate listing, debate over warning labels, exposure limits continue.
Lessons From Vermont: What the State’s Successes and Setbacks Should Teach Us About Single-Payer
Lawmakers could learn valuable lessons from activists working to enact Vermont's single-payer health care law.
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Trans People in Prison Fight Barriers to Changing Their Legal Names and Gender Markers
California's SB 310 could ease some of the challenges facing trans people in prison, such as a legal name change.
Single-Payer Fight Moves to Massachusetts
Massachusetts was first to legalize gay marriage; will it also be first to introduce single-payer health care?