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20,000 Domestic Workers Are About to Get Fair Wages. How’d They Do That?
Myrla Baldonado left the Philippines and settled in the suburbs of Chicago in 2006. She found work caring for the elderly and ill, whom she fed, bathed, clothed, and gave…
CIA Chief Just Confirmed “War on Terror” Has Created A Lot More Terrorists
Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan said Thursday that, years into the United States’ fight against the Islamic State, the terrorist group’s reach and power have not been diminished and…
With the TPP Nearing Ratification, U.S. Government Remains Deaf to the Failures of CAFTA-DR
Any student in an entry level economics class, as well as many liberals, would tell you that free trade, based on the law of comparative advantage, is mutually beneficial to…
How Unethical Is Buying Weed?
In many jurisdictions in the US, weed is so close to legal that you’re more likely to get busted for flying a drone in the wrong place than for getting…
What Activists Committed to the Long-Haul Fight Can Learn from the Life of Organizer Fred Ross
The biographies of icons frequently fall into one of two categories. On the one hand they may be laudatory, in some cases turning the subject into a saint. At the…
Beyond Bernie, Beyond Capitalism
It seems to be a law of modern politics that the health of a democracy stands in inverse proportion to the length of its presidential campaign season. If so, the…
Burning Issues: Reexamining Our Africa Policy
Emira Woods, associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, says in this Burning Issues video that the next U.S. president needs to think of Africa differently and ally with…
The Supposedly Liberal NY Review of Books Published a Very Strange Review of Chomsky’s Latest
In the first paragraph of his surprisingly inept and unfriendly review in the New York Review of Books of Noam Chomsky’s Who Rules the World? (May 2016), Kenneth Roth described the…
Primary Election Coverage
We’ll also talk to Ruth Conniff, editor-in-chief of the Progressive Magazine and Bill Fletcher, former president of TransAfrica Forum and Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies among many others.…
Bush and Cheney belong in jail: America must answer for its illegal war on terror
“The cold was terrible but the screams were worse,” Sara Mendez told the BBC. “The screams of those who were being tortured were the first thing you heard and they…
Noam Chomsky: Our Universities Are Basically Just Churning Out Obedient Employees
Washington DC based History Teacher Dan Falcone and New York City English Teacher Saul Isaacson sat down with Professor Noam Chomsky to discuss current issues in education and American domestic…
Crimes of the War on Terror
“The cold was terrible but the screams were worse,” Sara Mendez told the BBC. “The screams of those who were being tortured were the first thing you heard and they…
Failing coal CEOs rake in big bonuses as they screw workers
The advocacy group Public Citizen released a report Tuesday showing how top executives for three giant coal companies got large compensation boosts even as they laid off workers and cut their benefits. The…
UNGASS 2016: What prospect for change?
In the words of the Grateful Dead, what a long, strange trip it’s been. Debates at UNGASS 2016, the UN General Assembly’s third grand meeting to discuss and agree policy…
The war on drugs ‘failure’ prompts calls for drug policy reform
Combating the illicit drug trade has long been spoken of by policy makers as the ‘war on drugs’, particularly in the United States, but also here in Australia. The determination…
Best Approach to Drugs
Sanho Tree of the Institute for Policy Studies has told Tom Elliott that the ‘war on drugs’ is failing because it only makes drugs more valuable. “It’s a demand-driven problem,” Mr…
Neera Tanden Explains the One Big Difference Between the Democrats’ and the Republicans’ Civil Wars
A child of immigrants who got reduced-price lunches at school, a Massachusetts native who talks with a Southern California lilt, a Yale-trained lawyer and a former Hillary aide: Was there…
Imperialism’s Junior Partners
On May 12, Brazil’s democratic government, led by the Workers’ Party (PT), was the victim of a coup. What will the other BRICS countries (Russia, India, China, and South Africa)…
Infrastructure, Public Health Linked, Crisis in Flint Shows: Aging US Systems Pose Risks to Health
The old saying goes, “As goes General Motors, so goes the nation.” But when the automotive giant left Flint, Michigan, in the latter half of the 20th century, the once-great…
Meet the Haitian immigrant leading the fight for Disney workers’ rights
From the outside looking in, Walt Disney World appears to be a magical place. Princesses and princes roam the streets. Every day, fireworks light up the sky at the Disney…
North Korea and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
North Korea has had a relatively short and somewhat complicated relationship with the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). In the period after the Korean War, when North and…
As the coal industry collapses and workers suffer, top executives rake in more cash than ever
The advocacy group Public Citizen released a report Tuesday showing how top executives for three giant coal companies got large compensation boosts even as they laid off workers and cut their benefits. The…
How Unethical Is Buying Cocaine?
The benefits of buying cocaine are obvious: It makes you feel interesting and tingly for a few minutes, plus people will be nice to you if you give them some.…
Labor and allies discuss launching a “Take Down Wall Street” campaign
WASHINGTON – A giant coalition of unions, progressive groups and grass-roots organizations is discussing the launching of a “Take Down Wall Street” campaign. In meetings at the AFL-CIO and elsewhere…
New Film Reveals Israel’s US Propaganda War
“The Occupation Of The American Mind,” directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp, is a stunning documentary examining Israel’s public relations war in the United States. It premiered last month.…
Honoring the Helen Hayes nominees: Anu Yadav, playmaker and performer
It is an extraordinary thing to commit yourself to work in theater despite the long hours and low pay. Why do people do it? This is the second in our series…
The DEA is getting dragged ‘kicking and screaming’ into the new world of marijuana
In April, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said that it would reviewmarijuana’s classification as a Schedule I drug, considered the “most dangerous class” of substances. While the DEA’s announcement…
Justice Reform Work: The Promise of a Healing Balm for Black Mothers
Two of five black women has a family member in prison. Sit with that for a minute. Incarceration nation, mass incarceration, and school to prison pipeline are meaningful policy and…
FILM REVIEW: ‘OCCUPATION OF THE AMERICAN MIND’ UNRAVELS ISRAEL’S PROPAGANDA WAR IN US
“The Occupation Of The American Mind,” directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp, is a stunning documentary examining Israel’s public relations war in the United States. It premiered last month.…
Trump’s choice of energy advisor signals environmental catastrophe
Republican presidential contender Donald Trump has asked one of America’s most ardent drilling advocates and climate change skeptics to help him draft his energy policy. “While no one expected Trump…
