Month: June 2021

Nobody Should Be Celebrating the Affordable Care Act

Nobody Should Be Celebrating the Affordable Care Act

In fortifying for-profit health care companies, the Affordable Care Act became a cautionary tale about the political supremacy of an insurance industry that many Americans hate. But it has now become something even more profound: the ACA’s modest popularity,...

Not Even COVID-19 Could Slow Down Nuclear Spending

Not Even COVID-19 Could Slow Down Nuclear Spending

“IT’S VERY PROFITABLE to prepare for omnicide,” Daniel Ellsberg, famed whistleblower and anti-nuclear weapons activist, said in a recent interview. “Northrop Grumman and Boeing and Lockheed and General Dynamics make a lot of money out of preparing for such a war....