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How Sanders Shaped the National Discourse on Class: A Media Analysis
More than a progressive president, a working class with strong class consciousness is key for social change to occur.
Big Pharma Increased Price of Life-Saving EpiPen by Over 450 Percent
Americans are being forced to pay hundreds of dollars for a common life-saving product that has been on the market since 1977.
Fixing Obamacare: The Democrats Have to Talk About It
If people understand what the Affordable Care Act is, they are likely to want to protect it.
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Aetna Proves That Single-Payer Health Care Is the Only Way to Go
Citizens should organize for universal health care to replace the private insurers that cruelly put profit over people.
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Gaza’s Sick Pay Price of Blockade
Gaza has had chronic shortages of medicines as a result of political division between the West Bank and Gaza, as well as Israel's siege.
Doctors in Danger: How the Assad Regime Is Targeting Syrian Physicians
In his piece for the New Yorker, journalist Ben Taub profiles some of the underground community of health providers.
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If the Risk Is Low, Let Them Go
Offenders, who have aged out of crime, are the fastest growing population in prisons.
The Weak and Defeatist Democratic Platform on Health Care
The DNC committee voted down an amendment to include single-payer health care in the platform.
Can Overuse of Health Care Be Managed by Giving Consumers More Choice and Responsibility?
After six years, the Affordable Care Act has failed to adequately rein in costs or prices.
Pro-Fracking, Pro-Colonialism, Anti-Single Payer: Democratic Party Platform Disappoints
Progressives vow to “take the fight to Philadelphia” and battle for stronger platform at Democratic Party convention.