A Project for Survival in These United States
Lifting from the bottom so everyone can rise.
Lee Camp: The Four Layers of Reality — and Why We’re Only Allowed to Talk About One
There are at least four different aspects of our daily American lives that affect everything from how we think to where we live — not that anyone in corporate media…
The Military Wasn’t a Way Out of Poverty For Me
Instead, militarism is why so many of us are poor in the first place.
There’s No ‘Labor Shortage.’ There’s a Wage Shortage
To find workers, there’s a free-enterprise solution right at employers’ fingertips: raise pay, improve conditions, and show respect.
The Basic Right 140 Million Americans Are Denied Daily
Whose rights matter in pandemic America? Not those of poor Americans, that's for sure.
Global Report: The Richest Have Already Recouped Pandemic Losses, While Poorest Billions Will Need a Decade to Do the Same
On the opening day of the World Economic Forum, new study shows the 1,000 wealthiest people recovered completely in just nine months while the world’s poorest are likely to take…
Neoliberal Champion Larry Summers Opens Mouth, Inserts Both Feet
Ex-treasury secretary under Clinton offers important thoughts on the negative consequences of aid to the less fortunate.
Vaccine Thinking Applied to All of American Life
The remarkably speedy hunt for a Covid-19 vaccine shows what might be possible when it comes to the inequality that may be the most striking aspect of American life in…
The New Politics of the Poor in Biden’s (and McConnell’s) USA
A return to the pre-Trump days would be nothing less than a disaster. We must harness the fusion politics that was so crucial to the election of Joe Biden and…
So Trump Loses. What Happens Then?
Joe Biden’s arrival in the Oval Office won’t alter one mega-fact: Donald Trump will hand him a monstrous economic mess.
America Is Complicit in Yemen’s Spiral Toward Mass Starvation
The war in Yemen is an American war, and Americans have Yemeni blood on their hands.
View from the Ground: Ilhan, Antone and the Price of Inclusion
The liberal centrist will join you in demanding relief from the injuries of the system as he protects the very interests and policies that cause those injuries.
A Simple Solution to Pandemic Poverty
Unconditional emergency assistance is an urgent, fair and feasible way of stopping people falling into poverty as a result of the pandemic.
Chris Hedges: My Student Comes Home
In 1990, Lawrence Bell was 14, orphaned and living in an abandoned house when three Camden cops pressured him to sign a confession of murder. Sunday, thanks to the dogged…