Coronavirus

Eight trillion dollars have been surrendered to 20 years of high-tech killing and nation-wrecking, but this is hardly questioned. There's no accountability. The future that we want, the one that still includes humanity, remains an ideal.

America's children shouldn't be held hostage to a partisan political brawl. It's time we focused solely on their learning and their safety.

The super-rich have made a killing off of the pandemic. It's time to tax the hell out of them to pay for programs that serve the working class.

If someone else doesn't wear a mask, hasn't been vaccinated and hasn't taken the proper precautions, they can spread the Covid-19 virus through the air and infect whole classrooms of people.

Two years after the largest workplace raid in U.S. history, Democrats just passed a budget framework that could make millions of immigrant workers less vulnerable to exploitation.

President Biden must resist trying to revive a new Cold War with China and using that to undermine progressive governments in South America and side with the industrial oligarchs.

Trump's legacy will be not that he overthrew the clerical government or made it beg him for a new treaty, but that he put the previously unpopular hard liners in the catbird seat.

Business interests maintain their goal is merely to fill the slots with qualified candidates, but in fact they aim to fashion a cadre of workers who will accept, even actively seek, any job, no matter how demeaning or dangerous.

"Seeing as we are the ones who are supposed to be taking care of people, why is it that we are the least cared about?"

Far from signaling the return of significant inflation, temporary price increases are exactly what one would expect in a recovery following an economic shutdown.