Tag: equality
Don’t leave equality to the Supreme Court
In 29 states, trans people can legally be denied jobs and housing because of who we are. Congress should act.
The rich get more aid after floods, new research shows
Wealthier counties receive more federal home buyouts in the wake of natural disasters than poorer areas, regardless of whether or not these...
Don’t leave equality to the Supreme Court
Are you a woman? Imagine if you were fired for wearing a skirt to work.
Are you a man?...
Billionaires are a sign of economic failure
he New York Times published an editorial comment on its front page in January 2019, provocatively entitled “abolish billionaires.” The editorial raised a serious question: what...
When comedian Dick Gregory tried to bust the word
One afternoon in New York City in the spring of 1964, I marched at the head of a small civil rights demonstration,...
The myth of the rugged individual
The American dream promises that anyone can make it if they work hard enough and play by the rules. Anyone can make...
How businesses have changed since the #metoo movement
Equal treatment for women in the workplace has been a point of contention since the advent of the women’s rights movement a...
How a top chicken company cut off black farmers, one by...
After years of working as a sheriff’s deputy and a car dealership manager, John Ingrum used his savings to buy a farm...
US poverty statistics ignore millions of struggling American
Who counts as poor in the U.S. today?
Measuring the share of the population that experiences poverty is important...
In New York, and beyond, our Plutocrats may need a new...
What happens at America’s state level can sometimes reverse the political momentum of the entire nation. We experienced just such a reversal...
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When do the ‘primal, profit-driven forces of nature’—racked with buyer’s remorse—dethrone or defang MAGA...
If you credit mass buyers’ remorse by hoodwinked MAGA voters, that goes double for flabbergasted tycoons once open to disruption (and donor payoffs) but now bullied by the allegedly pro-business browbeater.
Outrage in Massachusetts after ICE detains high school student on way to volleyball practice
Milford residents demand answers and justice after ICE agents detain 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes da Silva, sparking statewide protests and national criticism of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Billions in clean energy projects canceled amid Republican tax bill and fossil fuel agenda
Clean energy investments are vanishing as the Trump administration’s tax plan and rollback of Biden-era climate policies threaten America’s transition to renewables.
‘Another aid massacre’: Israeli military kills dozens near privatized Gaza food site
For the third consecutive day, Israeli forces fired on Palestinians seeking food at a controversial U.S.-backed aid site, raising international outcry and renewed calls for accountability amid a spiraling humanitarian catastrophe.
Greta Thunberg and 11 other volunteers set out on mercy mission to Gaza
A crowd of supporters gathered at the port with Palestinian flags to encourage the 12-person crew. The mission is sponsored by the Freedom Flotilla organization.