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UnitedHealth Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Patients’ Treatment at Risk
For years, it was a mystery: Seemingly out of the blue, therapists would feel like they’d tripped some invisible wire and become a target of UnitedHealth Group. A company representative with the Orwellian title “care advocate” would call and grill them about why they’d seen a patient twice a week or weekly for six months.…
Read MoreTrump and Allies Plot Cuts to Medicaid, Food Stamps to Fund Tax Cuts for Wealthy
Polling shows that most Americans would oppose cuts to either program.
Read MoreAbolition Work Shows Us There’s Joy to Be Found Even as the World Is on Fire
Part of the Series The Road to Abolition We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition is a call to rethink and re-practice the deeper everyday meaning, existential vitality and vulnerability of abolition praxis. As a co-parent of Black sons, I was deeply moved by Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson’s new anthology, which invited me…
Read MoreHurricane Helene Wrecked Facility That Produces 60 Percent of US’s IV Fluids
Hospitals around the country are conserving critical intravenous fluid supplies to cope with a shortage that may last months. Some hospital administrators say they are changing how they think about IV fluid hydration altogether. Hurricane Helene, which hit North Carolina in September, wrecked a Baxter International facility that produces 60% of the IV fluids used…
Read MoreThe Goal to Keep World’s Temperature Rise Below 1.5 Celsius Is “Deader Than a Doornail”
Global leaders gather at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan to discuss climate and efforts to curb emissions. Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/ZUMA Press Wire This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The internationally agreed goal to keep the world’s temperature rise below 1.5 Celsius is now “deader than a doornail”, with…
Read MoreBiden Admin Sanctions Israeli West Bank Settlers — But Not Leaders Arming Them
Democrats previously urged Biden to sanction top Israeli officials for their backing of violence in the West Bank.
Read MoreTrump’s FCC Pick Wants to Intimidate Broadcasters and Enrich Trump Allies
Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. During this year’s campaign, Donald Trump disowned Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation agenda that would transform the federal government’s enforcement powers into political weapons while selling off the rest to the highest bidder, by swearing…
Read MoreGermany and US Are in a Race to the Bottom on Suppressing Pro-Palestine Speech
Last week, 52 Democrats voted to embolden a fascist. Let’s back up. For the past year, leading members of the Democratic Party have increasingly called attention to Donald Trump’s authoritarian ambitions. He tried to overturn an election. He’s threatened to prosecute his political rivals. He’s sowed distrust in the democratic process, deemed the press an…
Read MoreDozens in North Gaza Dying Under Rubble as Israel Blocks Rescue Missions
Israeli forces are carrying out field executions of civilians in north Gaza and causing dozens to die under the rubble as Israel carries out its horrific all-out siege of the region, a rights group has reported. According to a report by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, Israeli forces are “terrorizing” civilians in north Gaza, forcing them…
Read MoreTrump Is Filling His Cabinet With Loyalists Prepared to Gut Federal Agencies
Over the last two weeks, president-elect Donald Trump has rolled out the names of those who he hopes will staff top federal agencies in his incoming administration. While Trump’s first administration was led by a blend of longtime Washington insiders and less traditional picks for Cabinet spots, this term Trump appears ready to buck conventional…
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