Friday, February 13, 2026

Aetna Shows Why We Need a Single Payer

Two choice are emerging: one is a public single-payer system. The other is a hugely-expensive for-profit oligopoly with the market power to charge high prices even to healthy people – and to charge sick people an arm and a leg.
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How Amazon is ripping you off

They’re accused of using a secret algorithm, codenamed “Project Nessie,” to charge customers an estimated extra $1 billion dollars.

2021: Half of America facing poverty

For the great majority of Americans without a share of the stock market, and for those who can't work from home, the pandemic is adding the prospect of a financial collapse to all their other concerns.

Hey Republican voters—you ain’t seen nothing yet!

In defense of the federal government, or...

What’s Trump’s escape valve when (or if) he realizes he’s losing? Bluster ...

There could be greater disruption than Jan. 6, but the enormous, co-ordinated might of law and order won’t get ambushed again.

Why not buy Israel, engulf it as a colony/state, then sell Ukraine to cover...

No one takes arms to protect Panama’s billions in unfair trade from our Canal. What other southern sh-t-hole place roars against the mightiest lion on earth?

The imperative to reduce the chances of a Trump victory

Until the Democratic Party officially nominates its presidential candidate, the push for Biden to withdraw from the ticket should continue.

This election hangs on how many voters get the two, conflicted blueprints for Americanism

When, at least since 1861, have we ever faced such a relentless, internally-driven threat that impedes our idealistic push towards a more perfect union?

How the Braiding Seeds Fellowship works to uproot racism in the food system

This Petersburgh, New York, organization fights racial injustice in the food system.

Bernie Sanders’ Real ‘Political Revolution’ Could Happen This Fall

With Hillary Clinton likely to win the Democratic nomination, a push is on to get Sanders not to endorse her, and instead to accept the Green Party nomination for president -- a move that could both make the Greens a major party overnight, and destroy the centuries-old two-party duopoly poisoning American politics.