Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Low-wage corporations spend over half a trillion on stock buybacks while workers struggle with...

A new report reveals that the largest U.S. corporations, notorious for paying poverty-level wages, have spent more than $522 billion on stock buybacks since 2019. This practice enriches wealthy executives and shareholders while leaving workers behind.

Head of National Nurses encourages Bernie Sanders to start a People’s Party

Criticizing the Democrats and ditching them are two entirely different things.

How a Mid-Sized Tennessee Town Took on Comcast, Revived Its Economy and Did it...

Even if more mergers go through, having a public option for internet, cable and phone service is always better for consumers. Chattanooga, Tennessee showed America just that, by providing municipal broadband internet to residents.

Nonviolent discipline is helping turn the tide on ICE

Despite brutal provocation, the people of Minneapolis have been courageous and remarkably nonviolent, embodying the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.

The stand down order: Charlottesville PD’s complicity with terror

There was a stand down order. The police did nothing. The Sheriff’s Department did nothing. The city council did nothing. They. Let. This. Happen.

At March for Our Lives, a call for a nationwide strike of schools

“Avoid attending school if your leaders fail to do the job.”

Journalist tests ICE recruitment; surprised to find herself hired with no background check

It seems like the answer to the question, 'Who are they hiring?' is: They don’t know.”

How student loans became America’s financial catastrophe

From hopeful beginnings to a broken system, student loans reveal how policy choices turned higher learning into a lifelong financial trap.

How union membership leads to a great life

Unions anchor millions of Americans in the middle class, enabling these workers to leverage a stronger work-life balance than peers at nonunion workplaces.

Bayer to pay $10 billion in cancer lawsuits over Roundup

“Even as we celebrate and congratulate those who made this day possible, millions of people are being exposed to glyphosate.”