How a top chicken company cut off black farmers, one by one
After years of working as a sheriff’s deputy and a car dealership manager, John Ingrum used his savings to buy a farm...
Uber and Lyft, driving drivers into poverty and despair
"In 2016, Uber and Lyft combined spent more on lobbying than Amazon, Walmart and Microsoft combined. They use their political might to win deregulation bills."
Striking West Virginia teachers revive a proud labor heritage
After nine days on strike, the teachers won!
Joe Arpaio promoted his GOP Senate candidacy with a publication that denies the Holocaust
The anti-immigrant Joe Arpaio has a long history of racist and corrupt actions.
Chris Hedges and Wallace Shawn on politics, playwriting and power
The two discuss experiences working in other countries and how those experiences led them, as Hedges puts it, to “grapple with the reality of empire.”
What I learned about nonviolence from Tony Soprano
Through the eyes of an organizer, “The Sopranos” offers many lessons in navigating power and how to wield it.
Arizona teacher who spent $2,000 of her $31,000 salary on school supplies speaks out...
Zoe Hyde: "I had to get markers, crayons, pencils, tissues. All those supplies that you think are part of the education environment, I had to buy myself."
Inherit the hypocrisy
If we do not stand up and protest this fanaticism... "He that troubleth his own house will inherit the wind..."
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.
Why rebuilding America’s manufacturing muscle is essential
Decades of industrial decline left America unprepared for the pandemic. COVID-19 simply caught America flat-footed.