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Patients rest in a hallway in the overloaded Emergency Room area at Providence St. Mary Medical Center on January 27, 2021 in Apple Valley, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Income inequality comes for your health

Stephen Bezruchka
People walk by yachts moored at the Hercules Port in Monaco on September 25, 2019 during the 28th edition of the International Monaco Yacht Show. - The Monaco Yacht Show is considered the most prestigious pleasure boat show in the world with the exhibition of 500 major companies in luxury yachting and featuring over a hundred super and megayachts. (VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Images)

Cutting carbon matters — if you're rich

Maddie Stone - Grist
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a campaign rally at University of Nevada February 18, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The historical peculiarity of Sanders

Keith A. Spencer
A worker vacuum-cleans the carpet inside the Congress Center ahead of the 47th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP) (AP)

Reality creeps into the billionaire club

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
President Donald Trump listens as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a meeting with parents and teachers, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

We're no democracy anymore

Thom Hartmann - Alternet
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Billionaire losers

Angelo Young
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