By Branko Marcetic A bombshell new report reveals just how extensively Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas has allowed billionaire interests to buy him favors. But he’s far from the only one on the powerful court…
By Jessica Corbett On April 6, Equal Rights Amendment supporters slammed the vast majority of U.S. Senate Republicans for filibustering a resolution that would make the 100-year-old measure the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. The…
By Saige Smith NC House Bill 533 – A Total Abortion Ban On March 26, North Carolina Republicans filed the first anti-abortion legislation of the session, and it’s bad. This bill would ban abortion from…
By Carl Hintz On January 18th George Lakey, a long time activist and author, visited the Raleigh (Quaker) Friends Meeting to share from his new memoir Dancing with History: A life for Peace and Justice….
By Jake Johnson A national physician group this week called for the complete termination of a Medicare privatization scheme that the Biden White House inherited from the Trump administration and later rebranded—while keeping intact its…
By Eva Talmadge When Fauzia Bajwa, a retired software developer who lives in St-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec, received an invitation to participate in something called a citizens’ assembly, her first impulse was to write the letter off…
The US needs to adopt European-style social housing and also make rental assistance an entitlement. Read more at Counterpunch.
Luis Arce outlined his ambitious vision for changing the global capitalist system. Read the story at Geopolitical Economy.
Published in issue no. 221, September 2020 By Max B. Sawicky We’re currently getting a vivid, painful reminder of why we need a public sector. The collapse of public services, in particular the provision of…
Published in issue no. 221, September 2020 By Benjamin Barber Voting by mail is expected to increase massively this year amid concerns that in-person voting could accelerate the spread of the coronavirus. According to an…