The 19th explains: How Medicaid helps mothers, caregivers and children
Here’s what you need to know about how it currently ensures quality health and long-term care for large swaths of people.
Understanding NATO, Ending War
On 4 April 2019, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, better known as NATO, marked the 70th anniversary of its existence with a...
How this federal legislation would save veterans’ lives
Marcelo Assis, president of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 12000 at Southern Connecticut Gas, fervently believes the nation needs to do a better job of reaching out to those who served and connecting them to the assistance they earned.
‘Only the people can save the people,’ say migrant workers
The National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) embodies an ethos of “solidarity, not charity,” in both fire relief and immigrant rights.
How extensive is the privatization of security?
While attention has been brought to the privatization of warfare, the growing privatization of policing continues to progress globally.
Big tech platforms have had a “profound negative effect on democracy.” Is it time...
“People of all political stripes understand that there’s a problem here.”
The eviction crisis is a race and gender wage gap issue
There is a direct correlation between this racial, gendered wage gap and evictions.
Nonviolence and trust
This week I joined others from my town in a State Department initiative called City Pair; in this case, "pairing" Portland, Oregon...
Mobilize for system change
We too can choose whether we want a future of solidarity where human needs and protection of the planet come before profits or whether we will continue down the path where corporations and the politicians they fund deny access to basic needs.
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.