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More unions jump on single-payer caravan

September 21, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg

The moves come as the GOP-run Senate nears a showdown on a last-ditch effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Rev. William Barber and the new Poor People’s Campaign

September 20, 2017 By Michael Berkowitz

Here in the richest nation in the world, the poor and working class are being left further behind. The Poor People's Campaign intends to do something about it.

GOP’s last-ditch attempt would replace ACA with block grants

September 19, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg

Their latest repeal effort would turn almost all federal health spending into block grants, leaving states decide whom to serve and how to spend.

Schumer and Pelosi strike again: Democrats cut Dreamers deal with Trump

September 15, 2017 By Dominique Paul Noth

The hard right worries about a GOP civil war if the deal goes through, while devout leftists worry Schumer and Pelosi are moving too close to Trump.

Karl Marx makes a comeback

September 14, 2017 By Kathy M. Newman

Over the last decade, Marx has also made a comeback as a serious intellectual figure. In the fall of 2008, as the global financial crisis was starting to be felt and understood, The Guardian reported on...