The gig is up
Gig work is making capitalism harsher.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, July 9, 2018
Trump freezes Obamacare payment program, Starbucks says goodbye to plastic straws, Colorado schools are arming teachers with no state oversight, and more.
Let’s agree to stop ‘keeping the peace’ this holiday season
As we approach the holidays, here are eight tips for discussing difficult topics with family that center connection over conflict.
What’s killing America’s middle class?
Just as progressives deliberately pushed public policies to create the middle class, so are today's economic royalists deliberately pushing plutocratic policies to destroy it.
Another critical watchdog report: Rotten food, decaying mattresses at New Jersey ICE contract lockup
Prior Inspector General reports have found medical neglect and other violations at other immigrant detention centers.
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, June 20, 2018
U.S. withdraws from Human Rights Council, Canada legalizes recreational marijuana, first ladies unite against family separation at the border, and more.
A tale of two druglords
One gets life behind bars, the other retired into luxury. Guess which one wreaked more havoc.
America’s farmworkers face poverty, neglect, and now deportation
Up to 70 percent of the people who put food on America's tables may be undocumented.
Strike! Barbara Ehrenreich calls on TSA workers to walk off job in protest of...
As 800,000 workers continue to go without pay, federal employees around the country are rising up to demand an end to the shutdown.
Experts, Journalists Slam Trump’s All-Male Economic Advisory Council
There are 13 People on Donald Trump's new Economic Advisory Council. All 13 are men. None are actual economists.