Jacobin
- Health Care Consolidation Is Leading to Ever-Higher Prices
Millions of Americans are likely experiencing sticker shock as they learn that their monthly health insurance bills are set to skyrocket next year. Much of the blame has focused on the likely expiration of enhanced premium tax credits, which will drive up rates for Affordable Care Act Marketplace plans. But this development isn’t the only
- In Chile, Jeannette Jara Is the Candidate for Organized Labor
Angela Rifo has experienced unspeakable violence. During Chile’s seventeen-year dictatorship, the trade unionist was detained and tortured. Since then, she has dedicated her life to ensuring that others wouldn’t have to suffer as she did — including in the workplace. This history explains why Rifo, in her sixties, ended up in the same room as
- The Left-Leaning Military Veterans Eyeing Congress
During the midterm election next year, the Democratic Party hopes to regain lost ground on Capitol Hill by running a new crop of “service candidates” — men and women whose campaign bios stress their past experience in the military and national security agencies. One booster of this approach is Elissa Slotkin, a business-friendly Democrat who
- Trump’s Killings at Sea Escalate the US’s Forever Drug War
Today Donald Trump presides over his own Murder Incorporated, less a government than a death squad. Many brushed off his proclamation early in his second term that the Gulf of Mexico would henceforth be called the Gulf of America as a foolish, yet harmless, show of dominance. Now, however, he’s created an ongoing bloodbath in
- Capitalism Enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s Crimes
Jeffrey Epstein is in the news again, this time after the House Oversight Committee released a whole library of his correspondence over the years. On one hand, the rare glimpse into the world of elite power brokerage this offers is fascinating. Like most rich people, Epstein and his conspirators clearly believed that they were above
Mother Jones
- In a Mississippi Jail, Inmates Became Weapons
Chris Mack has been locked up in Mississippi’s Rankin County Jail on and off since he was a teenager. In a lawsuit, he detailed a jailhouse assault that left him with broken ribs, a broken nose, and two black eyes. But it wasn’t just guards who attacked him. Mack said a group of inmates joined
- What Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Mean for Two Podcasters With Down Syndrome
In late April, podcasters Audrey Presby and Jeremy Fraser decided to venture out of their studio in California to head to Washington, DC. It was not the most joyous occasion: Presby and Fraser, both of whom have Down syndrome, were there to plead with House representatives not to vote to pass the sweeping health care
- Bill Pulte Is Really Having a Week
If you had never heard of the Federal Housing Finance Agency—a small niche of the government that oversees much of the mortgage industry—this might be the week that put the FHFA on your radar, all because of its director, a 37-year-old official named Bill Pulte who was this week’s Washington Main Character (Non-Epstein Division). Over
- New Docs Show DHS Gathering Driver’s License Data in Voter Fraud Crusade
The Trump administration is quietly undertaking an effort to expand a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) tool used for citizenship verification to include driver’s license and passport information—personal data it plans to utilize in its voter fraud crusade. You’ve probably never heard of the DHS system known as SAVE (or Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements),
- Scott Wiener Defeated California’s NIMBYs. Can He Fix America’s Housing Crisis?
For a moment, it looks like California—maybe the whole country!—is doomed. Usually, the last days of a legislative session in Sacramento are a blurry schlep through hundreds of votes as both sides of the Capitol try to get bills onto the governor’s desk. Today, a strikingly pretty Friday in mid-September, it’s time for a bill
Counterpunch
- Strike While the Needle is Hot w/ Josh MacPhee and Kennedy Block
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to Josh MacPhee and Kennedy Block, authors of the new book, Strike While the Needle is Hot: A Discography of Worker’s Revolt, published by Common Notions Press. Josh MacPhee is a founding member of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, the author of An Encyclopedia More The post Strike While the Needle is Hot w/ Josh MacPhee and Kennedy Block appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- You Can Count on It
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- Dick Cheney: Two Hearts, But Remained Heartless
Modern medical science gave Dick Cheney one of its greatest gifts when he received a donor heart in 2012 at the age of 71. Thirty-four years earlier, Cheney had suffered his first heart attack; he had a second heart in 1984. In 1988, at the age of 47, Cheney suffered his fourth heart attack, and then a fifth heart attack in 2010 at the age of 69. After every attack, according to Dr. Charles C. Hong, Cheney benefitted from a medical breakthrough until he received the donor heart. More The post Dick Cheney: Two Hearts, But Remained Heartless appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
FAIR
- 50-Year Mortgages: Trump’s ‘Bad Deal’ Gets Respectful Hearing From Press
The 50-year mortgage plan, while dressed up as reform, is in reality part of an effort to normalize permanent indebtedness.
- Emails Reveal Epstein’s Ties to Mossad—But Corporate Media Looked Away
Information from a major hack targeting Israel revealed that Jeffrey Epstein played a significant role in brokering multiple deals for Israeli intelligence.
- Gene Slater (2022), Richard Rothstein (2015) and George Lipsitz (2024) on Housing and Media
Housing and home ownership represent a critical vector in the project of a multi-racial democracy.