It’s Time for Black Experts to Be Heard It’s Time for Black Experts to Be Heard
Over a decade after the Great Recession, key institutions are still not listening to warnings from Black scholars on a range of issues. The time for excuses is over.
Feb 7, 2022 / Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
A Manifesto for Dignity in a Digital Age A Manifesto for Dignity in a Digital Age
On Ro Khanna’s bold vision.
Feb 7, 2022 / Martha C. Nussbaum
Baseball Players Can’t Live on “a Cup of Coffee” Baseball Players Can’t Live on “a Cup of Coffee”
The media’s “billionaires vs. millionaires” view of the current baseball lockout is a major league lie. The vast majority of players who reach the big leagues don’t play long enoug...
Feb 7, 2022 / Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier
As Child Tax Payments Expire, Struggling Families Are Desperate As Child Tax Payments Expire, Struggling Families Are Desperate
Congress could get inspiration from the tortured creation of Social Security.
Feb 7, 2022 / James Roosevelt Jr., Henry Scott Wallace, June Hopkins, Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall, and Harold M. Ickes
Maida Springer Kemp Championed Workers’ Rights on a Global Scale Maida Springer Kemp Championed Workers’ Rights on a Global Scale
The Panamanian garment worker turned labor organizer, Pan-Africanist, and anti-colonial activist advocated for US and African workers amid a Cold War freeze.
Feb 4, 2022 / Kim Kelly
Protests in Kazakhstan Rattle Russia and China Protests in Kazakhstan Rattle Russia and China
China’s response to massive protests in its energy-rich neighbor show that claims of noninterference in the domestic affairs of other countries are not to be taken at face value.
Feb 4, 2022 / Dilip Hiro
We Need a 92 Percent Tax on Pandemic Profiteers We Need a 92 Percent Tax on Pandemic Profiteers
Let’s tax billionaires—and übermillionaires—back to where they stood when Covid-19 hit.
Feb 4, 2022 / John Nichols
Why Wishful Thinking on Covid Remains As Dangerous as Ever Why Wishful Thinking on Covid Remains As Dangerous as Ever
Pundits urging us to treat Covid “like the flu” or pushing “the urgency of normal” are just variations of the siren song of surrender to needless death and preventable disease.
Feb 3, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves
In This Latest Covid Surge, Americans Are Struggling to Make Ends Meet Without Sick Leave In This Latest Covid Surge, Americans Are Struggling to Make Ends Meet Without Sick Leave
With the country in the throes of the deadliest Covid wave yet, American workers are back to having no federally mandated paid sick leave.
Feb 3, 2022 / Bryce Covert
Will the Gates Foundation’s Board Ever Hold Bill Accountable? Will the Gates Foundation’s Board Ever Hold Bill Accountable?
Though described as “strong independent voices,” the new board members all have financial ties to the Gates Foundation.
Feb 2, 2022 / Tim Schwab