It’s not enough for Starbucks to carry out a scorched-earth campaign to destroy workers’ union organizing campaign. The company is now implementing Trump-like attacks on the legitimacy of union elections overseen by the National Labor Relations Board. Starbucks's new...
Since its launch in 2015, Australia’s Border Force has been mired in controversy and corruption scandals. Its dissolution is imperative to ending the punitive and pernicious approach at the heart of Australian immigration policy. An Australian Border Force agent looks...
Hollywood loves to crank out boring action movies. But Hulu’s Prey is anything but. It plays off of and reverses long-standing Hollywood tropes about Native Americans to craft an alien thriller that actually delivers. Still from Hulu's Prey. (20th Century Studios)...
Today nearly 45 million people owe $1.9 trillion of student debt. This debt does not impact everyone equally. Two-thirds of all student debt is held by women; the heaviest burdens are held by women of color. Twenty years after graduating, on average, white borrowers...
Starbucks is seeking good PR by offering to cover travel costs for abortion and gender-affirming care for workers like me. But its promises come with caveats and can be revoked. We don’t want flimsy promises — we want these benefits in a union contract. Starbucks has...
Right-wing culture warriors recently attacked Immanuel Kant as the father of “critical race theory.” Now, figures like Charlie Kirk are going after Baruch Spinoza — a radical enlightenment thinker who can actually teach us a few things about how to fight the Right....
On the 2020 campaign trail, Joe Biden and much of the rest of his party promised to pursue a public option for health care. We haven't heard a word about the public option since. President Joe Biden speaks at the White House in Washington DC on August 9, 2022. (Tom...
Candidates who amplified false claims about Donald Trump winning in 2020 did very well in this month’s primaries. Their victories are one more step in the direction of authoritarianism. Donald Trump embraces Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake at a "Save...
On the 2020 campaign trail, Joe Biden and much of the rest of his party promised to pursue a public option for health care. We haven't heard a word about the public option since. President Joe Biden speaks at the White House in Washington DC on August 9, 2022. (Tom...
Candidates who focused on false claims about Trump winning in 2020 did very well in this month’s primaries. Their victories are one more step in the direction of authoritarianism. Donald Trump embraces Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake at a "Save America"...
On the 2020 campaign trail, Joe Biden and much of the rest of his party promised to pursue a public option for health care. We haven't heard a word about the public option since. President Joe Biden speaks at the White House in Washington DC on August 9, 2022. (Tom...
The mainstream narrative is that Russia’s war is singularly to blame for the rise in commodity prices. This is wrong. Speculation on the part of investors, uninvolved in the production or distribution of goods, is primarily to blame for inflation. The Kremlin’s war...