Category: US
Terry Miller: Amazon Warehouse Worker: Why I’m Taking Action
Dean Baker: Trump’s Fixation on Intellectual Property Rights Serves the Rich
William D. Hartung: Merger Mania
Rebecca Gordon: The Personal Is Still Political
Lawrence Wittner: Billionaires and American politics
Steve Early: How a Telephone Workers’ Strike 30 Years Ago Aided Fight for Single Payer
My experience working at the Amazon warehouse called Delivery Station DCH1 has been one of utter disrespect and complete disregard for our health and human dignity
Charles Pierson: Sofi’s ChoiceA US Border Patrol agent at a holding facility in El Paso, Texas told the family’s 3-year old daughter that only one of her parents could remain with her and her two siblings in the US. The Border Patrol agent asked the little girl which parent she wanted to remain with her in the US
Chung-Wha Hong: Resisting the Wall Industry, From Mexico to PalestineThe institutions responsible for harming people operate across borders far more than most people realize, yet many groups are joining forces to gain strength
New Politics Editors: In Defense of Socialist InternationalismAnswering the Propaganda of the Authoritarian “Left”
If we had some mechanism for sharing research costs across countries, then new drugs could sell for a few dollars per prescription, instead of a few thousand
The Military-Industrial Complex on Steroids
Khury Petersen-Smith: Iran’s Not the Aggressor. The U.S. Is.If a war breaks out, it won’t be because the Trump administration “bumbled” into one
And It’s Planetary, Too
By 2014 the share of political donations by the wealthiest 0.01 percent of Americans had increased to 29 percent (from 21 percent four years before), while the top 100 individual donors accounted for 39 percent of the nation’s super PAC contributions
30 years ago, a struggle against NYNEX, a telecom giant, became one of labor’s few big strike victories, during a decade that began with the disastrous defeat of PATCO, the national air traffic controllers union