Medicare For All

Respect. Rodney Dangerfield lamented that he couldn’t get it. Aretha Franklin pleaded for just a little bit of it. It’s universal. We all want it. We all know the pain and humiliation of its absence and the satisfaction of getting it. While respect is a cloth woven of many colors…

The online Clinton cult and, more recently, its KHive variant hold as articles of faith various talking-points programmed into them by Hillary Clinton, her underlings and her big-platform supporters. This writer has dubbed them “the Clinton Cult Rules,” and these, a substitute for independent research or judgment, are endlessly parroted…

A single night in the hospital costs upward of $11,000, and this patient needed three of them for the intravenous antibiotics to do their work. That’s not including, of course, the costs of the medication or the fee for the surgeon who removed the last bit of infected tooth. …

Activist Abel Amene’s Advice on Building a Better Future — After the Storm editor, Amanda Liaw sits down with activist Abel Amene to discuss a local version of Medicare for All in DC, as well as their vision for the future. The following interview has been lightly edited for clarity. Amanda: Hello, Abel! …

Staring at two broken yellow candles. Using them anyway because I wasn’t raised to be wasteful. It’s the same color, albuterol yellow. Another advertisement for health insurance on the football game everyone cares so much about. The snippets of propaganda reinforce employer control over our personal medicine. It pisses me…