Canada must prepare for America’s rapid decline

Of course, America’s problems go far beyond gun violence, healthcare, the minimum wage and military spending. Its festering social, economic, and environmental wounds include systemic racism, the dystopian and inhumane treatment of migrants at U.S. borders, extreme inequality, a deeply politicized judiciary, a captured regulatory system and an abject failure to address the climate emergency.

If ever there was a crisis that called for the implementation of a universal healthcare system, this pandemic is it, writes Dimitri Lascaris. Yet, despite Democratic control of Congress, and despite Joe Biden having campaigned on a public health insurance option, both the Biden administration and Congress have failed to pursue either “Medicare for All” or the public option.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY DIMITRI LASCARIS

December 27, 2021

MONTREAL—On Nov. 30, at Oxford High School near Detroit, Michigan, the United States suffered its 29th school shooting since the beginning of 2021. The deadly shooting al...

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