Health Care

Members of Strike Debt and The Rolling Jubilee recently announced that the campaign raised nearly half a million dollars.

The violence that we can easily end looks very much like the violence we find so difficult to address at home.

Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks: Democrats created Medicare - and it's up to President Obama to save it from the Republicans' knives.

While political leaders are intent on raiding Medicare to pay for tax cuts, the real solution to soaring health costs is more and better Medicare, not less.

Although Obamacare will have a hefty price tag, most of the burden will be carried by the federal government.

It's time for fundamental changes to our nationu2019s toxic food system. u00a0

It's been known since the 1950s that there would be more demands on social security; if there was political will, health care costs could be controlled.

Hector u201cMachou201d Camacho's death raised the troubling old questions as well.

Fast food workers close down McDonalds and other fast food outlets demanding a living wage and the right to unionize.

Howard Zinn reframed American history from the progressive perspective.