Trump Is Killing the Affordable Care Act by a Thousand Cuts

[t]   Friday, July 13, 2018 [t r u t h o u t] [View Recent Newsletters]( [Tell a friend about Truthout!]( [Donate Today!](   Truthout is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization; donations are tax deductible.   BuzzFlash Trump Is Killing the Affordable Care Act by a Thousand Cuts Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Recent White House actions mean more Americans will be uninsured and rates will rise. 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Giroux, Truthout: Fascism begins with hateful words and the demonization of others considered disposable, followed by an attack on ideas, the burning of books and the horrors of a carceral state. In these dark times, reading critically can be both a source of hope and a tool of resistance because democracy cannot survive with a public that is inattentive to the power of language and indifferent to history. [Read the Article]( [Armenian Youth End Soviet-Era Inertia in Velvet Revolution]( Theresa Lin, Truthout: Armenia's Velvet Revolution, which resulted in the resignation of its prime minister and aspiring strongman in April, came out of a history of civil mobilizations, some of which had failed to bring about regime change in the past. Under the leadership of former journalist and current Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the movement offered a counteraction to Soviet-era inertia for Armenia's post-independence generation. 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