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As rising health care costs and inadequate insurance coverage leave one in three Americans saddled with medical debt, the nation’s top health insurers have dumped billions into enriching their executives and top shareholders through lucrative...

Since October 7, when Israel began its assault on Gaza in response to Hamas’s surprise attack, newspapers around the world have rightly focused on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s crimes in Gaza. Relatively little attention has,...

There are whole decades when nothing happens — and then days when Romanian elections happen. The last few weeks in Romania have been tumultuous even by 2020s standards: after the first round of presidential elections...

Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema voted to block the reappointment of Lauren McFerran to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) yesterday. Had McFerran been reappointed, her term would have run until December 16, 2029. This...

Many would frown at the notion that Belgium could accurately be described as “neoliberal,” Belgians themselves included. There is good reason for such skepticism. Belgium’s welfare system is famously generous, relatively speaking. In 2022, it...

The profile and background of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week, is coming into sharper and sharper focus. For one, after days of speculation, we can now more...

Bernie Sanders Early on in this campaign, I commissioned a poll. We asked the American people questions about some of the most important issues facing America, including health care, including Medicare for All. And it...

America’s largest health insurers have raked in more than $371 billion in profits since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to financial data reviewed by the Lever. More than 40 percent of that...

Following a proud centrist tradition, Kamala Harris’s campaign promised to build an “opportunity economy” that would grant success to the deserving. The meritocratic pitch was emblematic of Democrats’ long march away from working-class voters. Vice...

Anand Gopal We should look first at the context in Syria before the revolution. The Assad regime had co-opted and eradicated the Left over fifty years, so what remained of the Syrian left was not rooted in working-class...

Carlo Galli There are three reasons that have underpinned the success of the Right, and they are partly contradictory. The first is the upsurge in protests that has been going on for the last twenty...

Last week, an individual gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Bryan Thompson in the streets of Manhattan. The gunman wrote “deny,” “defend,” and “depose” on the bullets he shot, suggesting that this killing was motivated by a...