The Mpox Global Health Emergency
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…
Waffle House Workers Fight Wage Theft
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…
Low Wage Corporations Spent Half A Trillion
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…
Solidarity to the Haitian Community
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…
‘ The Tyranny of Merit ’
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…
Necessity Drives Us Together
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…
People’s Will or Donors’ Will?
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…
Stop Using the Term ‘Centrist’
It doesn’t mean what you think it does Commentary by Arwa Mahdawi If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy, wrote Orwell. That applies today more than ever. I…
Organizing The South
UE Local 150 Convention in Whitakers, NC By UE Local 150 With the slogan “Resist, Restore and Revitalize!” the 13th Biennial Convention of statewide UE Local 150 convened at the Franklinton Center at Bricks on…
Calls for Death. Anti-Muslim. Dissing Public Schools.
Morrow’s a wild pick for NC schools chief By Myron B. Pitts Michele Morrow is the strongest statement that North Carolina Republicans have made yet on their real thoughts on public education. It is not…