Biden Makes America’s Militarized Southern Border Wall Even Bigger Business
How the Biden Administration is investing heavily in border militariization, with more of a tech flavor than than the Trump scheme.
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The Washington Quid Pro Quo and a Comment on Roe v. Wade
Has Washington corruption, metastasized in both parties, broken our country for good?
Read more...Out of Africa: Rich Continent, Poor People
A new book documents the scale and mechanism of the looting of Africa.
Read more...How Outsourcing Threatens America’s Safety
School bus drivers in Bay City, Michigan, have pushed back against mindless outsourcing of their union jobs.
Read more...How Young Workers Are Unionizing Starbucks
How young Starbucks staffers are leading the unionization charge.
Read more...Public Schools Fray as Pentagon Gets More Pork
More on the sorry state of US public schools and how they got there.
Read more...Will Pfizer’s Paxlovid Be the Game-Changer that Saves Biden’s “Test to Treat” Program?
First we had “shots in arms.” Now we have “pills in mouths.”
Read more...Climate Migration: What Do We Really Know?
Overall, the literature on climate-induced migration suggests that people are moving already because of climate change and that increasing numbers will do so in the future, either voluntarily or not.
Read more...An Unexpected But Welcome Call to Cap CEO Pay Comes From France
Neo-liberal Emmanuel Macron endorsed capping CEO pay as part of the recent French presidential campaign. Is the concept of a maximum wage an idea whose time has come?
Read more...Minneapolis Teacher Strike Brought Unity, Victory and a Reminder of the Threats Facing Public Education in the U.S.
Teachers ended a nearly three-week strike, citing advances in pay and working conditions for many members. But more work remains.
Read more...Court Should Consider Taking Over Dept. of Correction, Warns Manhattan U.S. Attorney
NYC’s notorious cesspool masquearading as a jail, Rikers Island, has failed to implement mandated reforms, which may result in a Fed takeover
Read more...Sri Lanka Economic Crisis Inflicted by Self-Serving Elite
How the Sri Lanka debt crisis was decades in the making.
Read more...Book Review: An Urgent Plea for Mental Health Care Reform
In “Healing,” psychiatrist and former NIMH head Thomas Insel argues for a more nuanced plan to fight mental illness.
Read more...Abortion Foes Played the Long Game, And They Are Winning
The U.S. is sliding toward a future where abortion is criminalized. This “new normal” disproportionately hits low-income people of color
Read more...The Impact of Fox News on the US COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign
Is Fox responsible for America’s low vaccination rate?
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