Prison strike that began on August 21 is scheduled to end today, the forty-fifth anniversary of the Attica uprising and rebellion took place in the New York state prison, with prisoners protesting slave labor conditions and other injustices.
Read more...A drop-off in funding for vaccines for ‘diseases of poverty’ is another consequence of the financial crisis. A recent study laments bleak prospects for breakthroughs on malaria, tuberculosis, dengue, and other diseases. Climate change is expanding the range where these diseases may be contracted.
Read more...A conversation with Chris Hedges about his apocalyptic new book America: The Farewell Tour (Simon & Schuster, August 2018).
Read more...Why the Fed is, rather late in the game, concerned about monopsony power.
Read more...Life along Woonsquatucket, and what “a screw loose” really means.
Read more...Bolstering, rather than cutting, Social Security is the solution to America’s retirement train wreck.
Read more...Defects in Sanders’ “plan to have a plan” to tax Amazon, and how to cure them.
Read more...Is the problem with the economy the amount of stultifying work, or that too much work is really about more and more aggressive competition for income?
Read more...In the Brexit referendum, UK citizens were pleading through their vote – and non-vote – for a fair shot at the future.
Read more...Why shareholders are getting a raw deal out of the misguided corporate fixation on “maximizing shareholder value,” and Elizabeth Warren’s new bill is therefore good for them.
Read more...A new report examines the path to global social progress. Unfortunately, there are no easy answers.
Read more...Progressives are waking up to the fact that most unions are not on their side.
Read more...Another attack on union funding.
Read more...Debunking American exceptionalism on a pet obsession: the ability to get rich.
Read more...Inequality creates the social and political divisions that isolate us from each other.
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