In the most closely watched unionization drive in years, fewer than half of the nearly 6,000 workers at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, voted 1,798 to 738 against joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). The mainstream...
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...
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...
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...
In the one year between March 16, 2020, and March 16, 2021, there were recorded no mass shootings (defined as a shooting that kills at least four victims in a single setting) in the United States. However, the overall murder rate in the United States in 2020 rose by...
