How to win the nation’s highest minimum wage
It took more than two years of hard work and relentless campaigning for LA’s tourism workers to win $30 an hour. Here’s how they did it.
If Islamic State Had Burned Down Four Churches, It Would Have Been Headline News
Arson directed at African-American churches is on the rise in recent weeks with seven burnt to the ground. But the question remains: Is terrorism “raced” in the U.S.?
Why march for science?
The positive effects of science on our lives are everywhere. And the needs for more and more responsible science are also everywhere.
“They’re killing us like dogs” – A massacre in Bolivia and a plea for...
Writing this dispatch from Bolivia, the conflict here is spiraling out of control and I fear it will only get worse.
Is Trump’s America our America?
Here we are in Trumplandia, with a delusional leader of a plutocratic party trying to redefine reality with “alternative facts,” fake news, and a blitzkrieg of Orwellian “Newspeak.”
Policing and protest in a pandemic
The progressive left continues to organize online for what comes after this crisis, hoping to ensure that life doesn’t easily return to the kind of ‘normal’ that allowed injustices.
MAGA wars against civilization and Mother Earth, not just democracy, justice and the Constitution
Sabotage and subversion from within, hypocritically called redemption of greatness, is the cowardly default. Burn it all down crushes good reform.
Not all ‘self-evident truths’ are created equal. Sleazy propaganda wars on truth.
The debate isn't whether government should deliver “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” but which self-selected tribe grabs the spoils and which doesn’t.
The baddest, bloodlust bullies having a very bad year
How goonish egotism backfires, Befouled by self-inflicted quagmires!
The anti-corruption revolution
Global uprisings against corruption can fuse middle-class concerns over the rule of law to a more radical critique of unequal political systems.