Saturday, April 27, 2024

Fast Food Workers in Kentucky Stand Up to Global Billion-Dollar Corporation in Union Vote

This Wednesday, cooks and cashiers at Morehead State University (MSU) will vote to unionize in order to bargain for a liveable wage. The workers are employed by Aramark, whose top executive makes 1,817 times more per year than their average worker.

Today’s young adults want to redesign capitalism. But into what?

The data suggest that today’s young people are losing faith in capitalism—and ready to embrace something much more fair.
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2020 candidates address historical trauma, missing Indigenous women & more at Native American forum

Exploring the candidates’ proposals to tackle issues affecting the Native American community, including the chronic murder and disappearance of Native American girls and women, land sovereignty, and generational trauma caused by colonialism.

Can This Entrepreneur Save Flint From a Plastic Bottle Crisis?

David Antelo says his reverse osmosis machines can provide clean water to the lead-plagued city without the landfill waste.

An All-American Slaughter

What’s new in all this isn’t the gangs themselves, but how much deadlier they’ve become in recent years.

What more is there to say on gun laws?

There comes a point where you feel like there’s nothing more to say about gun violence that hasn’t already been said.

The GOP health bill is an assault on people of color

The health care overhaul will cut programs that help black and brown people, while providing tax cuts for the wealthy that would disproportionately help whites.

Ending the war in Ukraine

Three possible futures.

Roof, Dear and Tashfeen Malik: The Double Standard for ‘Self-Radicalized Lone-Wolf Terrorists’

Is a vague organizational affiliation more important in determining whether a killing is terrorism or is the character of the target more important?

We can do so much more on student loan forgiveness

The administration still has time to take real action on student loan debt, but they need to get moving.