Medicating isolation
Drug use in the COVID-19 moment.
9 Black labor leaders and advocates reflect on the pandemic and what comes next
We asked nine leading Black labor organizers and policy advocates how to advance racial equity in the Covid recovery—and beyond. Here are their responses.
Why labor is holding its applause for Michigan’s latest ‘workers’ rights’ measures
Even as they passed the measures, lawmakers made it clear that they did so not to enshrine them in law, but to create an opportunity to water them down later.
Amazon refuses to act on climate change. So we employees are speaking out
We know from labor history that when workers want change, they shouldn’t just wait for company leadership to act.
Rethinking work—and life
People are rethinking where their story is going and how they can take it in a better direction.
How to survive us
Young people need real information and analysis, survival skills and resources.
US mass killers crucially abetted by nuts who won’t ban assault weapons and high-capacity...
If we don’t permit people to buy bombs and hand-held wire-guided anti-aircraft rockets, why do we permit them to buy semi-automatic assault rifles?
America’s Shkreli problem
What, if anything, does Martin Shkreli’s downfall tell us about modern America?
We can no longer afford a fossil fuel economy
The costs of not acting are high. The benefits of investing in a clean energy economy would be widespread. We need to keep building the movement.
A plaintive plea from America’s rich: Let’s change the subject!
Other candidates, most notably Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, begrudge plenty and have specific proposals for changing the rules that let wealth keep concentrating.