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Meet Three Grandmothers on the Front Lines of Health Care Movements
These three grandmothers are expanding health care in their communities.
Jails in LA County Knowingly Expose Prisoners to Deadly Fungal Infection
LA County is building a new jail in an area where valley fever — a potentially fatal fungal infection — is endemic.
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Seven Reasons Why the US’s New Mental Health Law Is Dangerous
The 21st Century Cures Act shifts money from relationship-based treatments to pharmaceuticals for mental health.
The Inadequate and Shoddy Debate Over Health Care
What does the recent election cycle portend for health care in America? Nothing good.
Digital Redlining: How Internet Service Providers Promote Poverty
Trump has threatened to raze recent FCC decisions on net neutrality and its associated privacy regulations.
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Why the US Should Have Universal Health Care
Health care shouldn't be a messy political fight to begin with: it's an issue of basic human rights.
Trump’s Health Care Policy Appears Heavy on Complexity, Light on Mercy
Letting the states decide how to insure residents might lead to a cobweb of unwieldy regulations.
Playing Defense: How Progressives Could Push Democrats to Block the Trump Agenda
Progressives now have more power within the Democratic Party, which activists must push to be more militant.
Sanders on Trump: We Need to Think Every Day How to Mobilize People to Defeat This Horrific Agenda
Sen. Sanders speaks about what it looks like to hold Trump and the Republican Party accountable.
How a Battle Over Affordable Medicine Helped Kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The debate about an exotic new kind of drug delayed the trade deal for years, thanks in part to relentless advocates who stood up to big pharma.