With school starting again, students, parents, teachers, other school personnel, and many community members are incredibly anxious about the spread of COVID, especially among young people who are not yet eligible for the vaccines. And we are right to be anxious. One...
Ten years ago, on September 17, a movement calling itself Occupy emerged on the streets of New York City in Zuccotti Park of the financial district. Quickly the movement spread to other parts of the United States, and eventually, the world. It was an important moment...
In northern Idaho, hospitals are invoking “crisis standards of care,” which means they will turn away some patients who normally would be hospitalized, because they lack health care providers and facilities to treat them. In California, people who lost their homes to...
Although there have been similar findings in the past, a new study by a labor union-financed think tank gives us precise accounting of the outrageous inequality in capitalist society. The average CEO income in the United States (including from stocks and other...
The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) just released its sixth report bringing the most up-to-date science on climate change together in one summary. Many of its conclusions are unsurprising -temperatures are rising, and greenhouse gas emissions are...
