Excerpt: If you want to save money, you need to deny healthcare to sick people. As politically unappealing as it may be to deny insulin to diabetics, or to refuse chemotherapy to cancer patients, it’s really the only option to achieve savings. Remember that rule of thumb about how 80 percent of the money goes to treat the sickest 20 percent of enrollees; if policymakers want to achieve savings, they need to be laser-focused on not paying for healthcare for those sickest 20 percent. 

Excerpt: A nefarious web of actors including plutocrats in the US and Australia, along with libertarian tech bros, and petro-states such as Russia and Saudi Arabia fund and amplify deceitful, ideologically motivated antiscience. They collectively employ weaponized social media outlets, podcasts and right-wing cable news broadcasts as their preferred tools. The objective is to inundate the public with fossil fuel-friendly propaganda that undermines climate action or public health measures including vaccinations. Scientists are often portrayed as enemies or villains. The well of public opinion so critical to informed voting is poisoned.

Excerpt: “He chose to fire Lisa Cook] out of all the governors because she’s a Black woman,” said LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the organization Black Voters Matter. “His goal is to get control of the Federal Reserve and for that to no longer be an autonomous, independent body. But what he does recognize is that in America everything is about race. It is as lethal as a nuclear bomb.”