Ady Barkan, Activist Who Used His Illness To Advance Progressive Causes, Dies

After a diagnosis with ALS, Barkan immersed himself in efforts to sink the Trump tax cuts and later, to adopt Medicare for All.
Attorney and liberal activist Ady Barkan has died.
Ady Barkan, a progressive activist and attorney who used his years-long struggle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to call for the protection and …