Image by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen. Every four years, like clockwork, our two major parties serve up presidential candidates whose commitment to the cause of labor is more rhetorical than real. This is most obviously true of conservative Republican courting of...
Photo credits: Public domain and Steve Jurvetson (CC BY-SA 2.0). Amazon’s Project Kuiper is sending its first satellites into space. The company’s founder and executive chair, Jeff Bezos, seems keen to challenge all things Musk—including Elon’s SpaceX Starlink system....
Photograph Source: Gage Skidmore – CC BY-SA 2.0 “Your presence here today is making Donald Trump and Elon Musk very nervous,” Sen. Bernie Sanders told Angelenos on April 12 as he took the stage to a thunderous ovation at Gloria Molina Grand Park in Downtown L.A....
Image by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen. Every four years, like clockwork, our two major parties serve up presidential candidates whose commitment to the cause of labor is more rhetorical than real. This is most obviously true of conservative Republican courting of...
Photo credits: Public domain and Steve Jurvetson (CC BY-SA 2.0). Amazon’s Project Kuiper is sending its first satellites into space. The company’s founder and executive chair, Jeff Bezos, seems keen to challenge all things Musk—including Elon’s SpaceX Starlink system....
Image by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen. Every four years, like clockwork, our two major parties serve up presidential candidates whose commitment to the cause of labor is more rhetorical than real. This is most obviously true of conservative Republican courting of...
Photo credits: Public domain and Steve Jurvetson (CC BY-SA 2.0). Amazon’s Project Kuiper is sending its first satellites into space. The company’s founder and executive chair, Jeff Bezos, seems keen to challenge all things Musk—including Elon’s SpaceX Starlink system....
Getty and Unsplash+. It still feels a little paranoid to say it out loud: that the United States might be drifting toward something that looks a lot like Russia. Or Hungary. Or some unholy blend of theocratic nostalgia and corporate feudalism. But that gut feeling—the...
Ultrabulk, trans-oceanic cargo ship, Astoria, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Okay, maybe you do read these in the newspaper, but not as much as you should. 1) The dollar’s status as the leading reserve currency does not mean we have to run a trade deficit, 2) There...
In just a few short months, the Trump administration has ousted countless career officials from the federal government. That’s a threat to all Americans who rely on quality government services — and threatens to undo decades of progress for Black families in...
Image by History in HD. If there was ever a strong contemporary case for declaring that silence is complicity, consider the hush of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, and even George W. Bush as they grind their teeth over the Donald Trump/Elon...
Image by Markus Spiske. Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love demanded for the spectral dictator Big Brother; the malleability of facts at the Ministry of Truth; or the ruling party’s...