The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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What the Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan Plan Says About For-Profit Health Insurance
The three paragons of capitalist success have just made one of the strongest arguments yet in favor of single-payer healthcare.
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Act Out! [121] - Medicare’s Awkward Birthday + What Resistance Looks Like Worldwide
Organizers are gear up for 52 events to celebrate Medicare's 52nd, and Cultures of Resistance director Iara Lee talks about work as an activist, artist and filmmaker, how art is a catalyst for change, and what she's learned on the front lines.
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Drugs and Privilege: Big Business, Congress and the EpiPen
This new price gouge is the latest example of a corrupt system that hurts regular Americans — but we will hold accountable those who are responsible.
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Retirees Need $130,000 Just to Cover Health Care, Study Finds
Out-of-pocket cost estimates that had held steady have now hit a record high.
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Act Out! [31] - Fasting, fracking, Medicare, money in politics & the Pope
This week, from med students to female priests, fasters to the monopoly man, we've got a helluva lineup – first up, let's talk Medicare and why it shouldn't be so ageist.
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CEOs Against Grandmas: How an Unpatriotic Corporate Elite Are Pillaging Retirees
The loudest calls for Social Security cuts are coming from CEOs who will never have to worry about their own retirement security — yet are part of austerity armies determined to make older people pay.
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Reich: The Triumph of the Right
Conservatives have won by shaping the national conversation around the size of government and the budget deficit, diverting attention away from the increasing concentration of wealth and income at the very top while most Americans fall behind.
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In Government Shutdown, "Nonessential" Federal Workers Are First To Go
On Tuesday, military recruiters, drug enforcement agents and National Weather Service meteorologists will be reporting for duty, while environmental engineers, food inspectors, labor statisticians and off-duty firefighters will not.
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Local Fights Against Austerity are Growing Across the U.S.
A wave of local grassroots organizing proves the potential exists to galvanize a national movement against austerity.
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Most Americans Want A Financial Transaction Tax -- Will Congress Hear the Call?
The proposed financial transaction tax, introduced to Congress several weeks ago, would generate more than $300 billion a year in revenue. 60 percent of Americans support it. But Congress, as usual, is stalling.
