By Anne Nelson On April 7, U.S. district judge Matthew Kacsmaryk made headlines with an unprecedented ruling suspending the 2000 FDA approval of the abortion medication mifepristone. The ruling marked the first time a court…
NC advocates, policymakers discuss solutions. By Jennifer Fernandez Everyone here knew the data: Black women are three times more likely to die in connection with childbirth than white women. And they knew the cause: hard-to-solve…
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…
If America had fair laws, 60 million workers would join a union tomorrow By Luke Savage According to data newly published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Labor Relations Board, the number…
Without clean air, the next infection could permanently disable you By George Monbiot You could see Covid-19 as an empathy test. Who was prepared to suffer disruption and inconvenience for the sake of others, and…
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….
It will take re-engineering, not just medicine, to close the door on COVID Andrew Nikiforuk In this, the fourth year of the pandemic, one question is on everyone’s lips. How the hell will this thing…
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 Chuck Bell A liberatory or emancipatory approach to eliminating medical debt begins with truly hearing the voices of one hundred million Americans who are struggling with bills they can’t afford to pay. As a…
In America today, we have informal labor cartels for the college-educated elite, while private sector unions for the working class are all but annihilated. By Michael Lind What was called “the Labor Question” a century…