The PRO Act returns: A defining battle for workers’ rights amid corporate resistance
The bill represents the most significant labor reform in nearly 80 years, designed to strengthen collective bargaining rights and curb the rampant corporate suppression of unions.
Why Wikis are a useful tool to protect online information from being ‘disappeared’
Wiki sites are at the forefront of a shift toward decentralized information sharing.
Since 1975, $79 trillion has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top...
Has this massive redistribution, driven by policies favoring corporations and the wealthy, reshaped the American economy?
On Int’l Women’s Day: Women’s equality: What will it take, what will it yield?
Where women have found a foothold, the results have been astounding.
How DOGE’s cuts to the IRS threaten to cost more than DOGE will ever...
“When you hamstring the IRS, it’s just a tax cut for tax cheats.”
Supreme Court weakens clean water protections, allowing more raw sewage discharge into US waterways
The ruling blocks the EPA from enforcing broad water quality limits through “end result” permits, which require cities and businesses to ensure discharged water meets pollution standards.
How Mesopotamia’s urban and industrial revolution started politics as we know it today
Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life.
Elon Musk spreads falsehoods about Social Security, calling it a ‘Ponzi Scheme’, to justify cuts
Musk’s comments, while not new in conservative circles, are part of a broader pattern of attacks on Social Security, which millions of Americans rely on for retirement and disability benefits.
America is no longer the leader of the free world
Trump, with his massive insults of Zelensky this past Friday, and his alarming embrace of Putin and his attacks on Ukraine, has caused this to happen: “America is no longer the leader of the free world.”
Let us all not praise infamous men
Five years after his death, the legacy of America’s most celebrated 20th-century CEO lives on.