Housing is a Human Right
A podcast and newsletter about the historic struggle to make housing, healthcare, and living wages fully enforced human rights.
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Medicare for All! (opens the original)
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When it comes to healthcare, our U.S. system’s inefficiencies and emphasis on profiteering have created a remarkable, tragic combination: we pay historic-level, world-leading sums of money on healthcare–$6 trillion per year–while enduring some of the world’s worst coverage and health outcomes.Our guest this week, Jasmine Ruddy of National Nurses United explains to us why our healthcare system is broken and why NNU–the l
A Boomer Dad and Gen-Z Son Talk Democratic Socialism (opens the original)
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Democratic socialism is having a moment in U.S. politics. Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) membership is at record levels. DSA- aligned candidates like Zohran Mamdani in New York, Katie Wilson in Seattle, Abdul El-Sayed el-say-ed in Michigan, etc. are building on the success of office holders like Bernie Sanders and Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. There will likely be a growing number of socialist members of Congress next year.At the same time, the pushback is fierce. <a href="
A Minister and a Rabbi Walk Into a Podcast . . . (opens the original)
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How the Rich Dodge Taxes, and the Price We Pay as a Result (opens the original)
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Ray Madoff teaches tax law at Boston College Law School and is the author of The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy, named a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker. Ray has spoken about this important book in all kinds of venues, including the New York Times and NPR podcasts, and has written about this topic for The Atlantic.In our conversation for We Can Do Better, we talk about why Ray says that, after the Constitutio
The Fox is Guarding the Henhouse--But We Can Fix That (opens the original)
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Last week, on NBC’s Meet the Press, our new U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche was asked “Can you pledge that the Justice Department will always act independently of the White House?” His reply? “ No, I’m not going to pledge that.”Once again, the Trump administration does us a favor. It unmasks the structural corruption that had been more politely hidden by previous presidents.As more fully developed in a Cornell
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