Blockbuster Deal to Wipe Out $30 Billion in

Medical Debt—But It’s Not Enough By Noam Levy Undue Medical Debt, which buys patient debt, is retiring $30 billion worth of unpaid bills in a single transaction with Pendrick Capital Partners, a Virginia-based debt trading…


Dismantling Accountability in Public Health

DOGE cuts staff responsible for FOIA requests By: Reshma Ramachandran Mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Serv­ices are continuing as the agency makes good on its intention, announced on March 27, 2025,…


Palestinian Student Arrested During

Citizenship Interview By Ahmed Shihab-Eldin Mohsen Mahdawi showed up for what he thought was his citizenship interview. After 10 years of living, studying, and building a life in the U.S., this was supposed to be…


They Are Going to Take Everything

If We Don’t Stop Them By Hamilton Nolan The worst thing that the federal government has done to labor unions in my lifetime happened last night. Donald Trump signed an executive order saying that the…


Africa Doesn’t Need Aid

It needs control over its critical minerals Commentary by Maxwell Gomera The decision of US President Donald Trump’s administration to suspend foreign aid and shut down the USAID agency has sent shockwaves across the development…


Nuclear Threat Beneath the Seas

The rising danger of the global submarine nuclear arms race By Lynda Williams Right now, beneath the world’s oceans, approximately 30 nuclear-armed submarines patrol silently, virtually undetectable. These submarines represent humanity’s deadliest doomsday machines: stealthy,…


Mutual Aid across State Lines

Eastern Kentucky to Western NC and back again: “We know what it’s like” By Katie Myers When the rivers and creeks running through eastern Ken­tucky jumped their banks and flooded a wide swath of the…



The Democrats’ Enabling Act

Senate votes to fund Trump’s dictatorship Commentary by Joseph Kishore On March 23, 1933, just seven weeks after Hitler became chancellor of Germany, the Reichstag passed what came to be known as the Enabling Act,…


When Anti-War Protesters Are Called

National Security Threats By Lora Lumpe Vice President JD Vance stunned Europe at the Munich Security Conference in February by calling the continent out for serious backsliding on core democratic principles. He cited annulled elections…