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In March of 2017, Vice President Mike Pence passed a tie-breaking vote in the senate to cut funding to Planned Parenthood by 30%. Now, in 2018, House Republicans are once again pushing to cut funding for Planned Parenthood while individual states like
As socialists, many of us are aggrieved at larger society’s focus on not just profit but consumerism at its core. With that consumerism comes exposure to endless advertising,dissatisfaction with what we have, and environmental destruction to boot. We also tend to overload
My first exposure to activists working to deny women their basic right of bodily sovereignty was watching film Silent Scream at catechism. This propaganda piece goes beyond misinformation. Fully-formed, still born babies are presented as the normal result of an abortion procedure;
Originally published on What About Peace? on April 30, 2017 This is the transcript of a recent email interview with Dr. Bruce M. Z. Cohen, senior lecturer at the University of Auckland and author of Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental
As a future doctor, I have a penchant for analyzing everyday situations and relationships with a scientific, empirical mindset. That is, as I see social constructs and interactions, organizational structures and systems of both governments and communities, I try to reconcile them
As a home health social worker, I work with homebound seniors who are often disabled by an illness. Something that drew me to social work was the opportunity to live my social justice values and uphold ethical principles to empower people. In
Our current society is made up of givers and takers. But lately there have been a lot of givers who aren’t being given back to; the few takers at the top are taking too much and don’t give back, creating a fundamental
When I was asked to write for The Socialist, I set a few rules for myself when I accepted the offer. Among those were that I wouldnʼt write in first person, and I wouldnʼt write about myself. There are far more important
American actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman, recently died of a drug overdose. I was one of the people who had an immediate reaction of shock and sadness over his death, as I felt he was one of the best actors of our generation
Health care reform is contentious, and requires a good deal of historical knowledge. Moderating debates so that enlightenment prevails over static is justified, but the history of health care movements includes the efforts of patients to find a public voice and be
