California recently passed a bill extending Covid leave for workers until September 30, 2022 and allowing it to be used retroactively to January 1, 2022. The bill allows up to 80 hours of Covid related paid sick leave. However, the bill does not apply to small...
For decades Bill Cosby has been a major cultural figure, which is why reckoning with his horrific track record of sexual assault has been difficult for many. We Need to Talk About Cosby, a new docuseries directed by W. Kamau Bell, currently streaming on Amazon Prime,...
Across the country, Democrats, Republicans and the media are all hurrying to declare that the pandemic is ending, and that it’s time to return to normal. They’ve decided that it is time to take all the masks off, get the profits flowing again, and accept that...
In 2021 the state of New Jersey had at least 8,000 people experiencing homelessness without a regular place to sleep. By the most recent count, Newark, the largest city in the state, had a consistent homeless population of at least 1,800. But for public transportation...
A scandal regarding the care of the elderly has broken out in France with the publication of a book entitled Les Fossoyeurs (The Gravediggers), published at the end of January in France. It has brought to light the repulsive malpractices of the Orpea Group, a world...
