Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks during the Senate Democrats’ news conference on extending expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits in the U.S. Capitol on December 4, 2025.
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Republicans are about to end Obamacare subsidies, driving up premiums for 20 million people during the year of the midterm elections. How have they managed to end up after all these years with no health insurance plan of their own? John Nichols comments.
Also: Bob Dylan’s earliest recordings have just been released—the first is from 1956 when he was 15 years old—on the eight-CD set Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series vol. 18—which ends in 1963 with his historic performance at Carnegie Hall. Sean Wilentz explains—he wrote the 120 page book that accompanies the release.
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