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Lindsay Koshgarian, Seven Things We Could Do If We Cut the Pentagon Budget by $100 Billion. We could afford transformative programs if we stopped throwing money at Pentagon contractors.

Evette Clemons, Credit Card Holders Get Protection From Fraud. Shouldn’t EBT Users, Too? Average-income families deserve the same consumer financial protections that higher-income Americans get.

LT Talarico, A Health Care Cliff Is Coming. Some 18 million Americans could soon lose Medicaid access. Here’s how to keep people from falling over the edge — and how to fight back.

Jim Hightower, Health Care Is Sick — And Profit Is the Disease. Corporate consolidation is burning out health care professionals and killing patients. But we have an alternative

Elsewhere on the Web

John Nichols, It’s Time to Talk About Nationalizing America’s Railroads, The Nation. Our railroad execs never look out for their communities. They look out for stock buybacks and dividends.

Douglas Rushkoff, The Apocalyptic Delusions of the Silicon Valley Elite, Current Affairs. How the super-rich plan to escape the world after they’ve destroyed it.

Medora Lee, How do rich people avoid taxes? Wealthy Americans skirt $160 billion a year in tax payment, USA Today. Some tax breaks require lots of money to even access.

David Campbell, Elizabeth Dale, and Michael Moody, US billionaires keeping more and giving less, Asia Times. Only 19 of last year’s top 50 donors to charity appear on the Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest Americans.

Ed Pilkington and Sam Levine, In Wisconsin’s supreme court race, a super-rich beer family calls the shots, Guardian. A grotesque example of what happens when you get rid of campaign donation limits that restrict how much deep pockets can spend on elections.

Mads Andreas Elkjær and Torben Iversen, The Democratic State and Redistribution: Whose Interests Are Served? American Political Science Review. Inequality has increased markedly since 1980 in 17 advanced democracies. All but one of these nations, the United States, have taken serious steps to offset the losses their middle- and low-income populations have suffered.

Cameron Abadi, How Macron’s Ally Became the Richest Man in the World, Foreign Policy. The world’s richest man at one key juncture threatened to give up his French passport if France enacted a tax on wealth.

Chuck Kelly, Today's Wall Street oblivion — worse than it was in 2008, Asheville Citizen Times. The 2008 stock market crash, not an SEC investigation, exposed Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. His investors wanted their money back. Our political leaders today are ignoring economic realities once again.

Rob Copeland and Maureen Farrell, Hedge Fund Billionaire Extracts Billions More to Retire, New York Times. Ray Dalio has portrayed himself publicly as a management guru. Shakedown artist might be a more accurate descriptor.