Tag: Opinion

The pandemic highlighted the essential work that nursing home staff members perform—and the necessity of treating them as essential workers from now on.

Right now, one person—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell—stands in the way of America’s fight against COVID-19.

The hybrid model teachers are being thrust into during the pandemic isn’t sustainable without more resources and support.

The federal government long ago created various agencies to protect workers’ rights and safety, but Trump turned them into appendages of corporate America.

The company’s professed support for a carbon tax is a disingenuous public relations ploy to delay government action.

The addition of anti-worker Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the right-wing-dominated Supreme Court will help the rich tighten their stranglehold on working people.

Although Donald Trump won the White House with a vow to reinvigorate a manufacturing base essential for America’s future, he failed to stanch the torrent of U.S. corporations absconding to countries with abysmal working conditions and lax environmental regulations.

Coronavirus and racism combined with online charters would create a plague of injustice that will never be wiped out.

Why vague commitments by fossil fuel corporations to “zero out” carbon emissions don’t add up.

The G.I. Bill helped millions realize a future they otherwise may not have ever known. We can do the same again—on an even larger scale.