Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, despite having plenty of money, has used the pandemic as an excuse to make huge cuts and layoffs to staff. Rutgers has an endowment totaling $1.467 billion dollars and about $650 million in annual research grants. In...
On February 15th, Spanish rapper Pablo Hasél was imprisoned. His crime? Writing song lyrics that compared the Spanish king to a Mafia boss. Spain is a constitutional monarchy, with an elected legislature and a ceremonial royal family. But along with its symbolic...
You may have missed it, but recently the secretive consulting firm McKinsey + Co. agreed to pay nearly $600 million in fines to 47 states for its role in helping Purdue Pharma promote opioid addiction. Corporations trying to profit from human suffering is nothing new....
On February 22, hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of Myanmar as workers across the country walked out of their jobs. The people of Myanmar are continuing their struggle against the Myanmar military that has seized power in a coup. Hundreds of people...
On February 26, we celebrate the birthday of Robert F. Williams, a pioneering fighter for Black rights who advocated armed Black self-defense against the racist violence of the Jim Crow south. Rob Williams was born in 1925 in Monroe, North Carolina. Growing up he saw...
