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William Rivers Pitt of Truthout: A senator with a terrible illness and excellent insurance voted to put all of our health care in peril. Do not worship at the altar of McCain.
Journalist Joshua Green discusses the latest developments in the GOP's efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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As rents become increasingly unaffordable throughout the metropolitan US, activists are looking at housing solutions beyond mere rent control, such as community land trusts -- successfully implemented in Cleveland -- and government-owned mixed-income housing projects with 99-year leases, such as those found in Vienna, Austria and Singapore.
Ecuador, New Zealand, India and Colombia have recognized the personhood rights of rivers. Now representatives of the Siletz River Ecosystem in Oregon have filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit to protect the ecosystem's right to be "free from toxic trespass and aerially sprayed pesticides."
While the Senate GOP's plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act has been denounced as devastating to sick, marginalized people, a new analysis finds that no matter what, the CEOs of large health care companies are likely to continue living lavishly.
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