Working at a rural emergency room in El Centro, California, I’ve seen firsthand how broken America’s for-profit healthcare system is. A populist Left that makes health its signature issue would be a powerful force.

The “health freedom” movement’s political ascendance has come about in a time of deep institutional mistrust. But it is a sham that will not actually make people healthier. To achieve this, we need to establish a collective right to health.

My conversation with an EMT and what it reveals about American economic life.

Doctors are ethically required to provide healthcare that is consistent with modern medical standards. If the law requires them to provide worse care—such as what’s happening with restrictive abortion laws—then the law is unjust and must simply be disregarded.

The injustice of US healthcare is especially pronounced in prisons and jails, where care is denied, delayed, and inadequate and sometimes even constitutes another form of punishment.

The National Health Service is the British socialist movement’s greatest achievement. Now, it’s under threat.

Journalist Nick Dearden on the basics of “pharmanomics.”

On the politics of ransom, and why there is no substitute for free universal healthcare.