The main organizers behind the effort to recall Governor Newsom in California want us to believe that this is a grassroots effort, motivated by the outrage of ordinary people at the Governor’s handling of the state and the pandemic. None of that is true. The recall...
As of July, 50 out of California’s 58 counties were in a drought state of emergency. In August, U.S. officials announced that the Colorado River, an important water reservoir for Californians, is experiencing its first ever water shortage. The next day, the...
On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed the Biden administration a temporary loosening of the hardline Trump border policies of the past four years. But the first seven months of the Biden presidency show little change from the Trump years. Migrants from Central...
Today we are sharing an episode of This American Life: “Essential.” In it we hear from a range of workers in the service industry who were deemed essential and had to keep working during the first wave of the pandemic. We hear New York MTA station agents talk...
The COVID-19 variants (Beta, Delta, etc.) are a direct consequence of the dysfunctional capitalist response to this global pandemic. The Delta variant was first detected in India. Because of the large number of unvaccinated people in India, the virus quickly produced...
