Learning From Decades of Public Health Failure Learning From Decades of Public Health Failure
A conversation with George Aumoithe on the history of disease prevention, the economic roots of the crisis American hospitals face, and why we need to do better.
Jan 19, 2022 / Q&A / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Unfinished Work of Abolishing Poverty Martin Luther King Jr. and the Unfinished Work of Abolishing Poverty
Democrats failed to embrace his Freedom Budget for All Americans in the 1960s. That failure needs to be addressed today with a bold program to abolish poverty and injustice.
Jan 17, 2022 / John Nichols
Workers Are Paying the Price for Kroger’s Profits Workers Are Paying the Price for Kroger’s Profits
A survey of 10,000 grocery-store employees lays out the job’s human cost.
Jan 14, 2022 / Kim Kelly
The Front Lines of Omicron The Front Lines of Omicron
With the pandemic returning to a state of emergency, we need to finally fix what was already broken in our society.
Jan 10, 2022 / Adam Gaffney
Why Alabama Coal Miners Are Still on Strike Why Alabama Coal Miners Are Still on Strike
Greg Pilkerton has been fighting for better pay and working conditions for 10 months. He explains why he and his union comrades aren’t giving up.
Jan 7, 2022 / Kim Kelly
For Afghanistan, 2021 Brought an End to One Horror—and the Beginning of Another For Afghanistan, 2021 Brought an End to One Horror—and the Beginning of Another
Since the West abandoned Afghanistan, the violence of the occupation has ended but hunger and the cruelties of the Taliban have taken its place.
Dec 29, 2021 / Ali M. Latifi
These Progressives Fought the Good Fight in 2021—and Gave Us Hope for 2022 These Progressives Fought the Good Fight in 2021—and Gave Us Hope for 2022
For a year that saw progress come slowly and presidential approval ratings decline, these progressives held the line, speaking truth to power, defending democracy, and showing up f...
Dec 28, 2021 / Feature / John Nichols
A Million Afghan Children Could Starve This Winter. Are US Sanctions to Blame? A Million Afghan Children Could Starve This Winter. Are US Sanctions to Blame?
Partly as a result of US policy, Afghanistan’s economy is expected to contract by 30 percent.
Dec 23, 2021 / Brian Osgood
Pramila Jayapal Is Not Having Any of Your Nonsense Pramila Jayapal Is Not Having Any of Your Nonsense
The progressive leader discusses her last call with Joe Manchin, her frustration with the idea that “the Squad” and Bernie Sanders were right and she was wrong, and her determinati...
Dec 22, 2021 / Joan Walsh
How Students Seized The Year How Students Seized The Year
It’s been another tumultuous, traumatic year, but young people continue to organize.
Dec 22, 2021 / StudentNation / StudentNation