The Fraud of the New ‘Family-Friendly’ Work
The new family-friendly policies seem ideally timed, but they apply only to a tiny group considered “talent”—highly educated and in high demand— to help to recruit and keep them. Let's not celebrate this new era just yet.
Workers matter and government works: Eight lessons from the pandemic
Here are some lessons we’ve learned from it.
The insult wars in Washington
How they blind us to our troubles.
Democrats need more democracy, not less
The Democratic Party’s problem isn’t that it’s too democratic. It’s that it’s not democratic enough, yet.
Germany blazes past US, setting new record for renewable energy production
Germany is the champion among industrialized economies in going green.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 70 Years After the Atomic Bombs Were Dropped
While devastation and suffering came from those two awful bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a nuclear abolition movement was born that still wages a peaceful campaign to eliminate these weapons.
The Defining Moment, and Hillary Rodham Clinton
At a time when average working people need a president who will fight for them, the question is whether Hillary Clinton is willing to be bold and to fight. This is a defining moment for Democrats, America and Clinton, herself.
Trump 2016: The Three Shadows Haunting Cleveland
A best-case scenario of a President Trump could be like Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi: an embarrassment for society and a disaster for the country.
Who’s really in charge of the Afghanistan War?
Trump is letting non-elected generals decide to hurl another 4,000 of our men and women into the Afghanistan War.
How Trump’s immigration dragnet harms all US workers
In all, the nation has so far lost more than a million foreign-born workers amid Trump’s mass deportation campaign.