Commentary by Jeffrey D. Sachs In 1999, when Vladimir Putin became Prime Minister and in 2000 when he became President, Putin sought friendly and mutually supportive international relations between Russia and the West. Many European…
Atomic Weapon Abolitionists By Jessica Corbett The NATO military block announced on Oct. 11 that its annual nuclear exercise is set to begin in mid-October—news that arrived just as Japanese atomic bomb survivors who advocate…
Covid In Schools, Nobody Else Will By Tess Finch-Lees “It’s not your fault,” I told 16-year-old Cara, whose mother died of a SARS-CoV-2 infection she gave her. To be clear, the doctor confirmed Cara (not…
A Time for Solidarity and Equity By Lawrence O. Gostin, J.D., Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H., and Alexandra Finch, L.L.M. On August 14, 2024, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox in…
By Peoples’ Dispatch On the morning of Thursday, September 19, Waffle House workers from across Georgia converged at a Waffle House location in the town of Morrow to protest widespread theft of wages. A new…
Inflating CEO Salaries Cinnebtary by Sarah Anderson Most of us believe in fair pay for honest work. So why aren’t low-wage workers better paid? After 30 years of research, I can tell you it’s not…
of Springfield, Ohio! By Liberation News In early September, a Facebook user posted a false claim arguing that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, OH were eating pets and waterfowl. This false claim turned into a national…
A 2020 interview with Michael Sandel about the populist backlash By Julian Coman Michael Sandel was 18 years old when he received his first significant lesson in the art of politics. The future philosopher was…
By Patrick Mazza The future is community. That might seem like a paradoxical way to begin a piece on the potential for break-up and conflict in the U.S. But it is the fundamental insight into…
Election 2024 Commentary by Belén Fernández In the aftermath of United States President Joe Biden’s train wreck of a performance in the June 27 presidential debate with Donald Trump, Democratic Party donors went into a…