Friday, May 3, 2024

Gender inequality is stunting economic progress

Despite the progressive policy commitments and institutional frameworks on gender equality and women empowerment, implementation remains slow and inconsistent.

It’s not enough to elect progressives: Movements must have a role in governing

Our work must be about building long-term, multiracial, people-powered movements around a shared agenda for racial justice and a people’s economy.

Video: Everybody Has the Right to Healthcare

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about presidential contenders, and whether or not everyone has a basic right to healthcare.

Is remote work as sustainable as we think it is?

The positives of remote work do tend to outweigh the negatives in regard to environmental sustainability.

Save our endangered cartoonists

Right before our eyes, an invaluable American species is fast disappearing from view: Kartoonus Amerikanas. These are the newspaper...

The land of the free, where so many of the brave are homeless

Resisting evictions amid a pandemic...

The coronavirus crash could be worse than the republican great depression of 1930

If we succeed in rebooting American manufacturing through the measures used by Hamilton (and emulated by China over the past 30 years), our recovery from this crisis could mark a new dawn for the American middle class.

Donald Trump Triggers a Media Civil War

The mainstream and right-wing press are melting down as they fumble coverage of the uncontrollable GOP frontrunner.
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Corporate hypocrisy on racism

Far from being the solution to systemic racism in America, these billionaires and their corporations are actively perpetuating it.

Rest in power, Kevin Zeese

Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.