Saturday, July 12, 2025

Tag: inequality

National (in)security

What a Trump presidency really means for Americans at the edge.

Real news

These “real news” stories show that it is possible to build progressive power in cities and the states.

Return of the railroad robber baron

If you don’t pay me $300 million, the new CEO at CSX is threatening, I’ll let your workers keep their jobs.

The charities making inequality worse

A growing number of executives at America’s ‘do-good’ nonprofits are doing much too good – for themselves – at paycheck time.

The new trade agenda: Deals that promote equality rather than inequality

These are the sort of rules that we should be looking to include in future trade agreements.

Morbid inequality: Now just SIX men have as much wealth as...

As inequality ravages the American and world economies, denial grows right along with it.

Inherit the hypocrisy

Look how far we have actually fallen as a nation, as a culture for that matter.

A new rationalization for riches

Activists today are exploring encouraging pathways to a New Economy that sustains both our planet and greater equality.

The problem isn’t Trump, it’s bigger

While we resist, we also need to promote a positive agenda of what we want to see.

Billionaires arrive on private jets to solve inequality, while African children...

To really help the poorest countries, we need to do less: less military, less debt, and less corporate farming.

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Noem calls to eliminate FEMA after delaying Texas flood response by days

FEMA officials say Kristi Noem’s own approval policy caused life-threatening delays before she used them to justify dismantling the agency.

Millions of tons of invisible nanoplastics found polluting North Atlantic Ocean

New research finds an estimated 27 million tons of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic, raising concerns for marine ecosystems and human health.

Albanese sanctions: Marco Rubio now acting just like Putin, charging human rights officials

An explanation of why this verbiage is arrant nonsense.

Five facts that show the enormity of American inequality

Whatever wealth exists among America's poor should not be taken away because of some ignorant prejudice of the rich.

No ordinary solidarity—inside Chicago’s hunger strike for Gaza


For 18 days, six members of Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago led a hunger strike that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressure elected officials.