Streamlining the health care bureaucracy would not be that painful.

Poor adults tend to spend more weeks disabled, studying, and caring.

Lots of coverage, low cost-sharing, and steeply progressive taxes.

The absolute gap between the top and the rest keeps growing.

Health insurance remains elusive for young and poor people.

Capitalism drives poverty and only the welfare state can fix that.

Workers should have a say in how their companies are run.

Ideas for transitioning from our current system to single payer.

We already know how to empower labor unions. It is time to do it.