By Frances Nguyen A universal basic income. Special emergency funds for marginalized groups, including undocumented immigrant women, domestic workers, women with disabilities and sex-trafficking survivors. Waived co-payments for covid-19 tests and treatment, including for incarcerated…
By Ralph Nader Many of us have heard that the Chinese character for “crisis” is also the character for “opportunity.” During the coronavirus crisis, we have a duty to apply political solutions and emerge much…
Statewide studies have shown that potential black jurors are twice as likely to be excluded as white jurors. Read more at Facing South.
Consent is a function of power. You have to have a modicum of power to give it. Read the article at The Atlantic.
The country is applying the “Housing First” concept. See this story at Scoop.
. . . according to a letter from Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer. Read the article at The Intercept.
Portugal solved its drug crisis. Why can’t America do the same? Read more at The Huffington Post.
There is a pernicious myth that affects the way we think about markets. Read the article at Dollars & Sense.
In the last U.S. presidential election in 2016, 6.1 million Americans could not vote because of laws that disenfranchise people with past felony convictions. Read about it Facing South.
by Carol Anderson America hangs in the balance. The elections in November next year will determine whether the United States continues down the road of authoritarian dynastic rule or reclaims the work of expanding and…