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The Fight Over How to Pay for Medi-Cal Puts Pressure on Newsom to Raise Taxes

Newsom has already vowed to tank a proposed ballot initiative that would impose a 5% wealth tax on the state’s billionaires to bolster Medi-Cal. Progressive lawmakers and their allies in labor and health seem hopeful that Newsom could support a different long-shot funding idea.

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When Evil Wears a Human Face

How do we understand monstrous acts committed by people who seem so utterly convinced of their own righteousness?

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