In 2020, fifty-five of the biggest, most profitable corporations in the U.S. paid zero taxes, while hundreds paid far less than the official 21% corporate tax rate. These corporations include FedEx, Dish Network, Duke Energy, Nike and other household names, as well as...
In order to prevent a steel strike in the middle of the Korean War, on April 8th, 1952, Democratic President Harry Truman ordered the temporary seizure, or nationalization, of the nation’s steel mills. Although the steel company owners decried the action as government...
Background At the time of writing this article, the COVID-19 pandemic has killed more than 550,000 people in the United States. The pandemic has exposed this society’s flawed and under-resourced public health system. It has also demonstrated the complete inability of...
For many people, it seems easy to blame Donald Trump for the cruelties of U.S. immigration and border policies. But recent months have shown that the Democratic Party under President Biden is unwilling and unable to fundamentally change the inhumane practices that...
In early April 1968, fifty-three years ago this month, Martin Luther King, Jr. was in Memphis to support the sanitation workers’ strike. The workers – almost all of them African American – had been on strike since February 12, demanding higher wages, safer working...
