Delayed NC State Budget Endangers Health
By Synclaire Cruel It had been more than 160 days since North Carolina had a state budget when, on November 19, the North Carolina Senate Democratic Caucus held “The Real-World Impact of Failing to Pass…
NC Legislators Freeze Millions for Legal Aid
By Lucas Thomae Civil legal aid organizations, which provide tens of thousands of North Carolinians with free legal services each year, have been forced to close offices and reduce client intake after the state legislature…
Trans Youth Under 19
Left with Few Options in NC By Brandon Kingdollar After North Carolina’s two largest medical providers halted gender-affirming care for patients below the age of 19, trans youth in the state are left with few…
DHHS Workers Deliver 650+ Petition Signatures!
By UE150 UE150 DHHS Council leaders participated in two actions the second week of January 2026 to demand use of the $386 Million DHHS lapsed salary fund. This included demands around an immediate $3,000 bonus,…
A Strike is Not a Spell
On the January 30 “general strike” Commentary by Tabitha Arnold Adrienne Maree Brown imagines community organizing as a series of spells. You might use one of brown’s spells for radicals to greet a comrade with…
Belgium’s Lumumba Case Raises a Question
By Tafi Mhaka On January 20, a court in Brussels, Belgium, convened a procedural hearing in the long-running case concerning the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the…
Administrative Warfare
The End of the Political Commentary by Nel Bonilla Why are administrative instead of legal tools used to sanction people like Jacques Baud, Hüseyin Doğru, Alina Lipp, or Nathalie Yamb? We are witnessing a fundamental…
Making ‘Tax the Rich’ More Than a Slogan
By Max Page Taxing the rich should bring a smile to your face. It certainly brings one to mine. Here’s what passing the Fair Share Amendment in Massachusetts allowed us to do, in just the…
Dollar Store Workers Fight to Improve Jobs
Even Without a Union By Jesse Baum When a Dollar General stocker named David Williams saw two of his co-workers struggling to subdue a would-be shoplifter who was carrying a knife in 2019, the then-33-year-old…
ICE Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers
Commentary by Kathryn Rubino Did you have immigration lawyer watch list on your 2025 authoritarianism BINGO card? If so, congrats! But for everyone else, it’s yet another sad slide into federal control to learn that…