New era of inequality: Billionaires pay less in taxes than the working class
Economist Gabriel Zucman's analysis reveals that for the first time, U.S. billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans, sparking a renewed debate on wealth tax.
View ArticleThe well-heeled and our personal well-being
Do we need, some observers of our fraying social fabric suggest, more people in public life noble enough to champion basic ethical norms?
View ArticleWill the Golden Age for corporate shareholders ever end?
Shareholders have assumed enormous influence over U.S. corporations over the last few decades. Despite their firm hold, shifts are underway that could alter the domestic corporate landscape.
View ArticleStudent demands for divestment are not new
There is a long history of students organizing for divestment from states and institutions complicit in criminal acts, apartheid, and genocide. Today’s campus protests against Israel are building on...
View Article‘Stop weaponizing antisemitism’: Police ‘body-slam’ Jewish Dartmouth prof. at...
This comes as more than 50 chapters of the American Association of University Professors have issued a statement condemning the violent arrests by police at campus protests.
View ArticleLooking up an NYPD officer’s discipline record? Many are there one day, gone...
Cases against officers frequently vanish for days—sometimes weeks—at a time.
View ArticleNYC’s Riders Alliance has a vision for a better, safer subway with less policing
A Q&A on how the alliance is organizing riders for new community investments and how they’re pushing back against regressive narratives about public safety in the city and state.
View ArticleReflections on student activism
The commitment of this generation of student activists will reverberate through the progressive movement for years to come.
View ArticleWashington court reverses verdict against Bayer in PCBs case
A $185 million verdict against Pharmacia—a Monsanto spinoff—which sold now-banned chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), was found liable in 2021 for chemical contamination.
View ArticleIsraeli human rights lawyer attacked while documenting settler raid on Gaza...
Food shortage continues in Gaza amid Israel’s ongoing offensive in Rafah and the shutdown of the two main border crossings in the south.
View ArticleAlbuquerque is throwing out the belongings of homeless people, violating city...
As a result, thousands of homeless people have lost personal property, according to interviews with community advocates, service providers and those who have had their possessions discarded.
View ArticleNevada pushes for abortion rights as coalition submits over 200,000...
This effort, spearheaded by Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom, underscores a critical moment in the ongoing national debate over abortion.
View Article‘A watershed event’: ICC charges against Netanyahu first time court has gone...
The warrants for Israel’s top leaders, which must still be approved by a panel of ICC judges, are “a watershed event in the history of international justice,” says war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody.
View ArticleWhy corporations choose lawlessness to fight unions
Workers at companies like Apple and Starbucks face armies of union-busting lawyers advising employers to repeatedly violate labor laws.
View ArticleActivists arrested in Capitol Hill protest urging Biden to cancel student...
The Debt Collective’s protest underscores the urgent need for student debt relief and a reevaluation of U.S. military spending.
View ArticleBezos and Musk vs. workers
These corporations win this fight only if the public doesn’t know what’s happening.
View ArticleHow solidarity triumphs over corporate greed
“Stay the course. Even if it sometimes doesn’t feel like it, you are winning.”
View ArticleElon Musk’s ‘thermonuclear’ lawsuit forces Media Matters to lay off dozens...
Months after Elon Musk’s defamation lawsuit, Media Matters announces layoffs, citing the financial burden of the ongoing legal battle.
View ArticleLow-life Supremes openly break supreme perfidy records
Without term limits and strong ethics log,/ Our fate mimics that water-boiled frog.
View ArticleHow workers are revolutionizing the South
Local 1025 members shared firsthand accounts of how the union boosted their wages, gave them a voice, and kept them safe on the job.
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