All Views Articles for 2020-02-24

Monday, February 24, 2020
Juan Cole
MSNBC's Chris Matthews Epitomizes Corporate Democrats' Bernie Derangement Syndrome
Corporate media will not tell you what America’s real problems are, because they are the class that benefits from all the dysfunctional characteristics of our Late Capitalism.
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Nurses and doctors rallying for Medicare for All in Chicago over the weekend outside the annual gathering of the American Medical Association which currently opposes the plan to make healthcare coverage in the United States available to all. (Photo: National Nurses United/flickr/cc) Robert Dodge
Medicare for All, Union Benefits, and the Promise of #NotMeUs
The nation's healthcare crisis is staring us in the face. And so is the solution.
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President Donald Trump's address to the nation regarding border security is shown on a television screen in Times Square, January 8, 2019 in New York City. A partial shutdown of the federal government extended to 17 days following the president's demand for $5.7 billion for a border wall while Democrats have refused. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Andrew Bacevich
Going Off-Script in the Age of Trump
The American susceptibility to contrived and scripted versions of reality reveals an emptiness at the core of our national politics.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during an event to introduce the Raise The Wage Act in the Rayburn Room at the U.S. Capitol January 16, 2019 in Washington, DC. The proposed legislation, which will gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2024, is unlikely to pass in the Republican-controlled Senate. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) David Goodner
How Bernie Can Provide a Better Version of the Hope and Change Presidency of Barack Obama
Is Sanders the Obama 2.0 that Democrats have been looking for? After tearing his way through Nevada, Bernie pivots to Super Tuesday with his eye on the White House. Here are the top five mistakes of his predecessor he must avoid in order to finally win universal health-care and a permanent...
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Ann Toback, CEO of the Workers Circle, speaks at the Women's March rally in New York City on January 18, 2020. (Photo: The Workers Circle) Michael Winship
The Workers Circle Fights Injustice with Activism—and Joy
A conversation with CEO Ann Toback: "Dissent is one of the great privileges of being a patriot."
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during an event to introduce the Medicare for All Act of 2017 on Capitol Hill on Sept. 13, 2017. (Photo: Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Diane Archer
Here's What 22 Separate Studies Found: Medicare for All Would Cost Less Than the For-Profit Status Quo
No matter how you design a single-payer public health insurance system, it would have lower overall health care costs, so long as for-profit private health insurers no longer exist to drive up health care costs.
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Democratic presidential candidate former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg greets supporters as he arrives at a town hall campaign event at the Denver Airport Convention Center February 22, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. Nevada held its presidential caucus earlier today. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images) Norman Solomon
As a Corporate Tool, Buttigieg Is Now a Hammer to Bash Sanders
The corporate establishment has not yet figured out how to defeat Bernie Sanders in the primary, but the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana appears dead set on damaging the progressive frontrunner as much as possible.
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