The Fight for Health Care Has Always Been About Civil Rights
“Of all the inequalities that exist” said Martin Luther King in 1966, “the injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman.” The ACA did the most in American history to extend coverage to people of color; “they have never been closer both to racial equality of, access and to, the federal protection of health care as a civil right. But if Republicans have their way, that dream will be deferred.”
A Weekend of Nazi Dress-Up Fun in the Heart of Trump Country
Head to a fun weekend event and you’ll likely post pictures of yourself all over social media. But the attendees of a World War II reenactment in Reading, Pennsylvania, are more likely to delete any pictures they’re tagged in, especially when dressed in a Nazi uniform: “People don’t understand that just because you wear this uniform doesn’t mean you believe what they believed.”
Two Brothers, Two Deaths
One brother died accidentally, hit by a police cruiser that was trying to pull over a speeding car. Three years later, the other was shot and killed by an officer. In each case, the officers who killed them were absolved of any wrongdoing.
The National Enquirer’s Fervor for Trump
The National Enquirer has made political careers, but more often it has broken them. (John Edwards ended his presidential candidacy after the magazine revealed he’d had a child out of wedlock.) But during a presidency rife with scandal, the tabloid has remained quiet thanks to its owner David Pecker, who makes no secret of his love for his old friend Donald Trump.
What’ll It Be For The New York Diner?
Diners were once essential threads in the fabric of New York City life. Now they’re dying off. Their loss signals a fundamental shift in not only the city’s tastes and economy, but the city’s evolving identity and values. Thankfully, not all are giving up their 22 different hamburgers and 24 types of omelettes yet.
Father of Migrants
Alice Driver visits a migrant shelter in Juárez, Mexico where she meets migrants who appear to be in simultaneous state of movement and limbo, desperate to escape violence, poverty, and other misfortunes in their lives. Their desire for a better life often leads them to become victims of human trafficking.
Drag Race winner defies conservative rule: ‘Drag is a form of activism’
“People before have been eliminated for being over thinkers, and I’ve succeeded because of it. I’m an over-thinker with a fighter’s spirit. I hope my legacy is that sometimes that level of thought is an asset, especially now in this political moment, because this political moment is very anti-intellectual, anti-information, and anti-historical.”
Serena Williams’s Love Match
How the greatest tennis player of all time met an internet entrepreneur, fell in love, got pregnant, and won a grand-slam.
Why My Guitar Gently Weeps
The slow, secret death of the six-string electric. And why you should care.
Nowhere Mag
For ten years, Monocle has successfully catered to the world’s status-conscious, globe-trotting elite by offering them exclusivity, materiality and identity. So does the rise of nationalism threaten a lifestyle magazine that treats the world as one big upscale mall?
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