Wednesday, June 3, 2026

The billionaires are wrong; we can’t afford anything but single payer health care

The ACA did not solve our healthcare crisis. We need National Improved Medicare for All.

You Don’t Matter to Drugmakers

Big pharma executives are going all out to paint themselves as the good guys — just not to you.

Just so we’re clear: Black mothers aren’t to blame for high infant mortality

When famous midwife Ina May Gaskin suggested that Black mothers should make better lifestyle choices to have healthier babies, the Black birth world decided they’d had enough.

Like tobacco and Big Oil, secret docs show chemical companies knew PFAS dangers

"The industry used several strategies that have been shown common to tobacco, pharmaceutical, and other industries to influence science and regulation—most notably, suppressing unfavorable research and distorting public discourse."
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‘Millions of lives are at stake’: Pressure grows on Biden to back WTO waiver...

“The world needs 10 to 15 billion doses to reach herd immunity, and right now all of the global production together is on track to make 6 billion doses this year.”

Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, September 26

Bill Cosby sentenced to prison, UN condemns U.S. for lack of universal health care, Montana judge restores grizzly bears' protection, and more.

Veterans arrive at Standing Rock to act as human shields for water protectors

Over 1,000 veterans plan to “deploy” and are calling on their fellow veterans to assemble as a “peaceful, unarmed militia at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.”

What America can learn from China—Lessons from the pandemic

While the China model cannot be transplanted to the West, there’s a lot that America can learn from China.

The elite’s Covid-19 coup to destroy humanity that is also fast-tracking four paths to...

I encourage you to have a ponder. There is a great deal at stake at this time. A human future, no less.

A short history of sportswriting (from Bat Masterson to Shams Charania)

The Clues Are on the Billionaires’ Scorecards.