A mother and her children appear at a news conference to discuss the importance of the child tax credit at the Ethel Bradley Early Education Center on August 12, 2021 in Los Angeles. (Photo: Gary […]
BY: William Rivers Pitt, Truthout PART OF THE SERIES Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 The conversation on shutting down massive swaths of the economy and daily life, in order to corral the dual […]
BY: Shane Burley, Truthout The past four years have seen terms like “antifa” hit common parlance around the U.S., but have also seen confusing distortions of what that term means. As right-wing pundits work desperately to […]
BYJake Johnson, Common Dreams The lapse of Democrats’ expanded child tax credit program at the end of last month has progressive lawmakers and advocates vocally warning of a major spike in child poverty in the new […]
BYNick Turse, TomDispatch It began more than two decades ago. On September 20, 2001, President George W. Bush declared a “war on terror” and told a joint session of Congress (and the American people) that “the course of […]
BY: Colin Barker, Haymarket Books PART OF THE SERIES Progressive Picks Colin Barker, a leading British Marxist intellectual, died in 2019 before the publication of his final work, Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age, in 2021. This […]
https://www.democracynow.org/embed/story/2022/1/4/covid_19_ice_immigration_detention_jails BY: Amy Goodman & Juan González, Democracy Now! As the Omicron variant sets record-high COVID-19 infection rates across the United States, we look at the conditions in the sprawling network of jails run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]
BYEleanor J. Bader, Truthout Luisa, age 19, was fed up with her mom’s demand that she complete all the household cleaning, from scrubbing the toilets, to washing the dishes, to doing the laundry. “I couldn’t take […]
BY KENNETH SURIN Photograph Source: Skoll Foundation – CC BY 2.0 “I support Zionism without qualification” – Keir Starmer, Labour party leader, 4 April, 2020 “I’ve been very deeply distressed in my visit to the Holy Land; it […]
CAIR says Islamophobic group working with Israeli government spied on Muslims for over a decade The Council on American-Islamic Relations has released new evidence about an anti-Muslim group’s web of spies and their connections to […]